On: Ask HN: Why can't await be used from non-async fun...

[gabes]

This isn't _exactly_ true. JS will await on anything that is Promiselike (an object with a `then` function that accepts a callback). See the TS definition of Promiselike.

[claytongulick → gabes]

JS will await on literals too, it just immediately resolves to the value of the literal.

I use this all the time in async functions with code branches, some of which await and some return an immediate value.