> Pretty sure a callback vs synchronous style of coding is a little more than syntactic sugar
Absolutely, asynchronous and synchronous are two very different patterns when programming with very different trade offs for both of them, but async/await is not synchronous, it only make that particular call _look_ synchronous, while actually being asynchronous.
Failing to understand that async/await is just syntactic sugar for dealing with asynchronous programming will sooner or later bite you.
Absolutely, asynchronous and synchronous are two very different patterns when programming with very different trade offs for both of them, but async/await is not synchronous, it only make that particular call _look_ synchronous, while actually being asynchronous.
Failing to understand that async/await is just syntactic sugar for dealing with asynchronous programming will sooner or later bite you.
Here is a gist that shows why async/await is not really synchronous (blocking) programming: https://gist.github.com/matt-mcalister/3f060bf32d292cfebc944...