promise support

[khomyakov42]

Please add promise support

[ColemanGariety]

@glasscube42 as I understand it, async is a more nodejs-as-it-is way of avoiding callback hell. If you want to use promises, use promises. The feature overlap is nearly 100%, I could be wrong.

[caolan]

This is not on the roadmap. Most promise libs provide some tools for orchestrating async tasks, though you might want to check out some of the forks which add promise support, such as https://npmjs.org/package/q-async

[rlidwka]

Most promise libs provide some tools for orchestrating async tasks

As far as I know, es6 thenables don't provide any tools for that. Other promise libs are way too bloated to use.

[caolan]

@rlidwka I'm not entirely dismissing the idea, just saying I have no plans to implement it right now. As I said, you might find the promise-based forks of async useful in the meantime.