Chrome 55 Beta Brings Async/Await To JavaScript

Written by Michael Larabel in Google on 21 October 2016 at 03:14 PM EDT. 10 Comments
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Google is ending this week by rolling out the Chrome/Chromium 55 web-browser beta.

Chrome 55 Beta brings support for the async and await keywords to JavaScript for Promise-based JavaScript coding. Great to see them finally improving the asynchronous JS support.

The Chrome 55 beta also has input handling improvements, CSS automatic hyphenation, GREASE support in the TLS stack, and various other developer-oriented changes.

Web developers and users of Chrome/Chromium can learn more about the 55 beta via the Chromium.org blog.
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