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That is NOT what async/await is about — after all, async explicitly marks functions as asynchronous. Not exactly trying to hide that.
Async/await is syntactic sugar. It is there to make working with Promises less verbose.
That is almost all: await pauses current function execution in the main event loop, which is an important detail
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That is NOT what async/await is about — after all, async explicitly marks functions as asynchronous. Not exactly trying to hide that.
Async/await is syntactic sugar. It is there to make working with Promises less verbose.
That is almost all: await pauses current function execution in the main event loop, which is an important detail