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		jeswin on Oct 9, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The State of JavaScript - Brendan Eich I think he missed mentioning the new lambda syntax. Hope it's still in ES6. Also, my pet peeve: there is no language that needs await/defer as much as JS. EDIT: Maybe it could be done with macros, which is on its way.

masklinn on Oct 9, 2012 | [–]

> there is no language that needs await/defer as much as JS.

http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:generators

is a more general abstraction, which allows expressing async/await-type constructs: http://taskjs.org/

BrendanEich on Oct 9, 2012 | [–]

I skipped arrow function syntax (=> only in ES6). It was a bit much and I wanted to focus on APIs and compilation.

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