Support for async/await has been added in the Nightly build from the 31st of October (bug #1185106). Great stuff!

Time to start removing those JavaScript transpilers from your experimental projects, and testing native browser support 😉

Here’s a demo. If your browser supports async/await natively, you will see “YES”.

voracity wrote on November 2, 2016 at 4:14 am:

Hurray! I feel like I’ve been await-ing this a very long time, but now it’s here as Promised!

(Well, still waiting on node.js to add support by default, presumably in version 8.)

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1. twitter_icodeforlove wrote on November 2, 2016 at 6:48 am:
  
  I find it odd that browsers are leapfrogging node in terms of implementation/release speed.
  
  The tables sure have turned, congrats Mozilla.
  
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  1. Alex wrote on November 2, 2016 at 4:53 pm:
    
    The most likely reason nodeJS doesn’t have feature X is because V8 doesn’t have it. It’s the same answer given for why nodeJS doesn’t yet support ES6 modules.
    
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George wrote on November 2, 2016 at 9:41 am:

Is this real life??

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marco wrote on November 24, 2016 at 1:47 pm:

i’d really appreciate to know if i can use async/await to “wait for” a promise, returned by a native messaging app, to be fulfilled…

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