I personally think that the syntax is great considering it's being added to an existing language. await/async allows you to opt-in to having your code behave in

I personally think that the syntax is great considering it's being added to an existing language. await/async allows you to opt-in to having your code behave in a synchronous-like manner, when you want it to. One of the best things about JS/Node is that you can wait on I/O from different sources at the same time and since the async/await syntax is just sugar over Promises, you can do things like: const [user, notifications, messages] = await Promise.all([ getUser(), getNotifications(), getMessages(), ]); Instead of having to wait on I/O sequentially like: const user = getUser(); const notifications = getNotifications(); const messages = getMessages(); if awaiting were implicit.