[flai]

async / await works only with Promises. As the name util.promisfy indicates, it generates promises.

You never need use use async / await.

[drinchev]

Thanks. I actually wrote the comment, because of :

> This enables writing code using async and await at all times, which is what any sane developer would do when writing code for Node.js.

[egeozcan]

Async and await do not make your code work synchronously, they make it look like synchronous.