This is massive for AWS Lambda (and we've waited a long time for this). We can now use async/await without transpiling our code. Thereby making it more readable.
We should hopefully see improved performance and startup times.
We should hopefully see improved performance and startup times.
Also, I'd be interested to find out why this is so massive? We've been waiting a long time for this, and I get that Lambda is complex with lambda@edge and all that, but how much tweaking does AWS do to the node runtime before they can deploy this?
Node 8 has been out for 10 months, and it's been LTS for half a year - or did they simply wait for it to be stable enough to run, or anything specific in 8.10?
No, it's not. Async/await is basically just syntactic sugar around promises.
Not sure why it takes 10 months to move to the new runtime.
On the whole I feel like the JS/TS eco-system is getting better and better. Especially since browsers and runtimes are converging towards ES6/7 :)