JavaScript Will Finally Get Proper Asynchronous Programming

The proposal to include async function in ECMAScript has reached stage four; that means it’s on track to be in the 2017 release of the standard. But what does that mean for JavaScript developers? There’s a lot of interest in async, the capabilities …

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