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The more I see and learn about ES6 the more I think JS code is going to look completely different in a couple years than it looks today - and in a good way.

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Wait till you see ES7 async and await :-D http://imgur.com/HvQbw48

Which can be used today via 6to5!

6to5 compiles ES7 too?

Sometimes, yes. :-)

http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es7/

I had first seen async/await in traceur-compiler. I was using it with Node.js' fs module two years ago, I believe.

How do you return a result (this function isn't doing so)? I'm guessing getJSON could be returning a Promise but there must be a way to do the same in an async function.

EDIT, here's the spec, looks like you can just return: https://github.com/lukehoban/ecmascript-asyncawait

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