Mike MacCana just wrote a blog post arguing ES2017's async/await was the best thing to happen with JavaScript. I fully heartedly agree.
In short, one of the (few?) good things about JavaScript used to be how well it handled asynchronous requests. This was mostly thanks to its Scheme-inherited implementation of functions and closures. That, though, was also one of its worst faults, because it led to the "callback hell", an seemingly unavoidable pattern that made highly asynchronous JS code almost unreadable. Many solutions attempted to solve that, but most failed. Promises almost did it, but they failed too. Finally, async/await is here and, combined with Promises, they solve the problem for good. On this post, I'll explain why that is the case and trace a link between promises, async/await, the do-notation and monads.
First, let's illustrate the 3 styles by implementing a function that r
