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		gabrielsroka on July 18, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: JavaScript Promises from the Ground Up > the await keyword is syntactic sugar for the .then() callback: async/await is not just syntactic sugar. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23701736 And the rest of thread

rauschma on July 19, 2024 [–]

It depends on what you mean by syntactic sugar. I follow this definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar

You can indeed translate an async function to an equivalent function that uses .then() but it’s a radical change, not syntactic sugar (as I use that term).

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