--- title: "#348: How Async/Await Will Make Your Code Simpler" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 348 published_at: "2017-08-18" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/348" --- #348: How Async/Await Will Make Your Code Simpler This week's JavaScript news — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/348) JavaScript WeeklyIssue 348 — August 18, 2017[Towards a JavaScript Binary AST](https://yoric.github.io/post/binary-ast-newsletter-1/)What could we improve if instead of sending text source code over the wire we sent a binary representation instead? 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