[jdmichal]

Maybe promises come before async/await, in an evolutionary sense. Same way that for-each loops seem to precede generators / yield. C# added Task before the syntax sugar of async/await. Java currently has Future, and I expect async/await to finally show up in about 10 years time...

[oaiey]

Just wanted to write that ;). Despite being C# developer and often smiling at the state of the Java language, I think Java will get async/await faster than in 10 years. I am more optimistic about it.

[he0001]

No! Async/await is a horrible construct. Keep it away from Java.