Question: How likely is it that Node v7.0.0 will include async/await?

[callumlocke]

Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask, but StackOverflow hates this kind of question.

I know v7.0.0 is scheduled for release in October 2016, but I haven't been able to find any list of features it's likely to include (if this exists anywhere, please point me to it).

The main thing I'm interested in is async/await. It would really help my planning if I could know roughly when it's expected to arrive.

[evanlucas]

Regarding async/await specifically, nodejs/promises#4 (comment) should give you more details on where things are.

TLDR: Hopefully it will be behind a flag in node v7 (unless something changes/has changed)

[Fishrock123]

It will probably be live in the V8 that node 7 ships. Here is an updated status: nodejs/CTC#7 (comment)

No, our APIs will not work with them, although there are plenty of discussions around that, we need to sort out some other things first. I would look around at the discussions on the nodejs/promises repo.