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That is lovely to hear. I think the general conscious is that not a single programming language has done Async right. So people are a little sceptical. But Andrew and the team so far seems to have the do it right mentality. So I guess people should be a little more optimistic.

Cant wait for 0.15 coming out soon.

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I would argue that Java's async is pretty nifty, especially now that some of the rough edges have been sanded off.

What is wrong with async in JS?

You have to write JS

single threaded, memory requirements, function coloring

> single threaded

The entire language is single thread. But I/O uses a separate thread pool.

> memory usage

Are you talking about extra 120 bytes per Promise?

> function coloring

How does it manifest in JS? You can `await` non-async function without any issues, anything potentially async is awaited, if it doesn't end up doing async inside there is no problem.

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