I have been studying ways to work around the horrors issues of JavaScript's async APIs for years. I have even built a series of increasingly elaborate continuation-based Lisp interpreters (here's the latest one, it's quite good, if I may say so).But recently I finally came to the point where I understood JS generators well enough to realize that generators already solve the problem! With a small constant syntactic overhead (having to use function* to define generators, having to use yield* to ca...