Elephant in the room: the upcoming async keyword

[devinus]

Any thoughts on what example code using async is going to look like after the async keyword is universal?

[aearly]

This was discussed a bit in #956 . I think we're going to aim for interop with functions that return promises (e.g. what async functions implicitly do). You'd be able to use an async function in place of a regular callback-using function. Async would then be useful in bridging the gap between async/await/Promise-style code and callback-style code.

[aearly]

This is a bit clunky, but it would work today, since asyncify adapts functions that return promises:

async.map(someArray, async.asyncify(async function doSomething(item) {
  var foo = await something(item);
  foo.bar = "whatever";
  return foo;
}), callback)