I didn't know it was still in progress... really hope async/await makes it in. I'm betting on that pattern to make JavaScript much more pleasant to write!
It'll probably make it into ES2017, given that Edge, Chrome and maybe FF will have it in their browsers by the end of next year, official spec or not. It's a popular feature, and with Promises and generators in place, easy enough to support.
It really does cleanup a lot of code, but getting people to understand that an Async function returns a promise isn't always the easiest thing to convey until after it's been used. I resisted Promises for a while, once it became a part of ES6, and with async/await in Babel, I started using it... the cleaner code is worth the minor bit of overhead.
It really does cleanup a lot of code, but getting people to understand that an Async function returns a promise isn't always the easiest thing to convey until after it's been used. I resisted Promises for a while, once it became a part of ES6, and with async/await in Babel, I started using it... the cleaner code is worth the minor bit of overhead.