Promises don't work well for library internals; they're external API only. Async* style methods cannot be replaced, so what's the point?
I'd much rather have Streams alternatives compete rather than these Promise things; they solve different problems
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Again: if the point is to parse data over time, then we should think about how to improve streams - Promises are geared to be one-off
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Languages like Go and Rust have syntax to panic and stop execution - in JS this is `throw `- it's mental to destroy those semantics
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I personally also don't see the appeal of having async functions appear synchronous. JS doesn't lend itself well to coroutines currently
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