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Cpoll on April 16, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: I Avoid Async/Await

> function getData() { return fetch(…); }

I feel like there are advantages to making it `async function`, even if it's superfluous, because it signals to readers and to static code analysis that the function returns a promise. That's assuming the return type of fetch(...) can't be inferred by static analysis and developer tooling.

Kwantuum on April 16, 2022 [–]

> the type of fetch() can't be inferred by static analysis

That is preposterous.

Cpoll on April 16, 2022 | [–]

It's not. One might assume it's Node fetch, but parent post was just using a specific example to make a general point. Fetch can be `any`thing.

Would you say the same thing about

function getData() { return mysteryFunction(…); }

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