JavaScript’s async and await functions make for readable and maintainable asynchronous code. Just watch out for their downsides.

Using callback-passing for asynchronous actions does not compose well and creates complex flows of passing callbacks around. The JavaScript community has produced several libraries to cope with this.

Callbacks work fine for handling asynchronous code in JavaScript, but promises and the async and await keywords are cleaner and more flexible.

[Sandro Magi] noted that the async/await idiom has become more prevalent in programming recently. According to him, he first encountered it in C# but has found examples of it in JavaScript and Rust… ...

Deno is based on Google's Chromium V8 JavaScript engine and written in programming language Rust as opposed to C++ for Node. Besides fixing problems with Node.js, Dahl also wanted Deno to cater ...