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Reactive 2015 Lightning Talk Proposal: Pyramids be gone!: ES7 Async Function
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This is a proposal for a lightning talk at the Reactive 2015 conference.

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Pyramids be gone!

ES7 Async Functions

JavaScript is getting async functions (or already has them if you count Babel.JS) and with them a way to finally slay the evil pyramid. This new language feature lets you write asynchronous code that almost looks synchronous, while maintaining the same semantics as promises. This lets you shed your .then and .catch boilerplate and escape those nested callbacks in favour of clean, explicit, maintainable code.

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