Why not async/await?

[tomkail]

Hey! Bit new to async programming, and I was curious why this uses Promises rather than Async/Await? My limited experience has shown async to work pretty well, avoid callback hell, and it works in edit mode which is nice. Just curious! Ta!

[maifeeulasad]

Why I don't want to use async/await:

• I need to make the whole function async
• promise handler gives me scope
• await doesn't tell me if I'm getting an error or a result; but promise does with catch and then, respectively
• I can wait for all promises, for few, or one; things like these
• make the code more readable, manageable, scalable, and also strictly typed
• it is cool

And break code into chunks. Always follow chunk over bulk. I don't know if it is a concept, pattern, or anything.

I'm going to close this issue now. But feel free to continue this thread.

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And seriously, I'm so comfortable with Promise that, I never had the time to even check if our library supports async/await with Promise or not (Just like we do in JS/TS).

[maifeeulasad]

Good read:

• https://betterprogramming.pub/should-i-use-promises-or-async-await-126ab5c98789
• https://stackoverflow.com/a/53057776/10305444

I will try to put some more resources here. In case someone finds them helpful.

:beers: cheerio :beers: