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I've been on teams working on node projects for like 15 years. I've never seen someone who understands promises or async await do that. You'd have to know nothing about what the async keyword actually does to be compelled to do that.


I mean, I know its a bit of linguistic flourish, but considering NodeJS was only initially released 12 years ago, that's quite a feat!


I have seen plenty of (usually junior front-end) devs resort to exactly this kind of cargo cult coding and magical thinking.


Well, they're junior devs. You're supposed to help them get past that stage, not just throw away all your tools.


What made you think I haven’t been helping them?


I'm going out on a limb here and assuming the issues with their code don't begin and end with async.


> I've never seen someone who understands promises or async await do that. You'd have to know nothing about what the async keyword actually does to be compelled to do that.

> usually junior front-end

So you agree with each other then?


Good day, axe handle.




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