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#JavaScript promises are only half a solution. async/await is the other half. One isn't terribly useful without the other.

@mjackson i don’t understand this opinion - async/await is just sugarhttps://twitter.com/ljharb/status/663855406687490048 …

@ljharb async/await make promises useful. w/out them I write code that is unmanageable and swallows errors.

@mjackson async/await has identical swallowing behavior to normal Promises - an async function returns a Promise that you need to `.catch`.

@ljharb i would never call an async function without await, which would throw the error.

@mjackson `await` only works *inside* async functions, and a thrown error in an async function rejects the outer Promise.

@ljharb Ah, I see what you're saying. At the top level you're always going to have a Promise.

@mjackson exactly - you can’t avoid the (simple) rule of “always add .catch to a promise”