@KitRedgrave async / await makes this a bit better in javascript

BUT STILL

the right answer is to have coroutines (ideally by delimited continuations) in a way that's much more cleanly baked into the language

Racket / Guile do this in a sane way. async stuff can be made completely clean and look like everyday straightahead coding.

Every time I program in javascript I get so angry because of this.