Quick discussion about async/await

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<jberger>async/await is going to take over the world
its going to be the next "OO is everything, if it isn't OO it is nothing"
"oh your language doesn't have a/a, ok boomer"
suddenly I see the lack of core a/a in perl(5) as as much of an existential threat as the confusion over perl6 was
<mishanti1>The competition we have is not the lack of feature A or B, but simply agility in introducing new features in the language.
<jberger>generally I agree with you, but this one is a big deal
it is changing how students are being taught to code
it is changing how apis are being designed
and younger coders literally aren't going to think in callbacks, nor even in promise chains really, in the near future
the rare actual paradigm shift
look though modern javascript documentation, a/a is everywhere
they don't even document how to do it the old ways much of the time