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

If you are interested in .NET style asynchronous programming for JavaScript you should look into Rx for JavaScript. Rx for JavaScrpt is Microsoft's JavaScript port of the Reactive Framework. The reactive framework is described as:

A library to compose asynchronous and event-based programs using observable collections and LINQ-style query operators.

You can download Rx for JavaScript here

And you can read more about it, including examples here

You can also install it on node with npm:

npm install rx

It works well with libraries like jQuery, however I am not a CoffeeScript programmer, so I'm not sure what support there is for interoperability with other JavaScript libraries in this language.