Daniel Lo Nigro
Jul 23, 2017 · 1 min read

For what it’s worth, the async/awaitsyntax is identical to C#, although the implementation is totally different. The JS version is essentially just syntax sugar for promises, while C#’s version is true multithreading (as things that you await can execute on a thread from a thread pool if needed).

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