Async/await in web browser or in node.js?

Question

Is there any attempt to bring async/await feature from C# 5.0 to any language which can be compiled to JavaScript (such as CoffeScript)? (So it can be used

Answer 1

When Node 0.11 (with v8 3.19 [1], which has generators[2]) arrives, you can use Galaxy and code like below.

However, only behind a flag. They are supported natively in ioJS.

function* countLines(path) {
    var names = yield fs.readdir(path);
    var total = 0;
    for (var i = 0; i < names.length; i++) {
        var fullname = path + '/' + names[i];
        if ((yield fs.stat(fullname)).isDirectory()) {
            total += yield countLines(fullname);
        } else {
            var count = (yield fs.readFile(fullname, 'utf8')).split('\n').length;
            console.log(fullname + ': ' + count);
            total += count;
        }
    }
    return total;
}

function* projectLineCounts() {
    var total = 0;
    total += yield countLines(__dirname + '/../examples');
    total += yield countLines(__dirname + '/../lib');
    total += yield countLines(__dirname + '/../test');
    console.log('TOTAL: ' + total);
    return total;
}