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

[codecurve]

There's no performance benefit. Promises/callbacks are abstractions which live in a much higher level programming space.

Incidentally, many high level programming languages _don't_ include GOTO, because people find it needlessly confusing and inhuman.

[jdrc → codecurve]

both are terrible concepts. Languages are supposed to help humans, or else we should all write assembly.