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Does it really matter what the generated code looks like?

We use Typescript and I don't care what the final Javascript looks like. I don't plan to ever touch that code manually.

It matters if you're concerned about keeping the size of your JS payload in production to a minimum. In the Babel example, you're looking at multiple times more lines per async function compared to promises, plus extra execution via regenerator when compiled to ES5.

That said, I'm a fan of async/await -- just not yet for projects where I need to optimize for filesize.

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