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		kinkdr on Nov 2, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Async/await support in Firefox Care to elaborate a bit? Just trying to understand why async/await is bad. In my mind it makes for much cleaner code that the callback hell. Also, how is Scala doing it?

pkolaczk on Nov 2, 2016 [–]

Scala is doing it exactly as in JS. We have async/await as a macro library transforming the code to a FSM. The original author posting this probably didn't know that, under-the-hood, await doesn't really block in Scala nor in JS.

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