It has been <a target='_blank' href="https://gist.github.com/Rich-Harris/0b6f317657f5167663b493c722647221">postulated</a> (with sound reasoning) that top level await is a bad idea. 
If so, are there any advantages to having <code>await</code> at all, when we already have <code>yield</code>. 
Having async is useful because an async function is guaranteed to return a promise irrespective of what is actually returned by the code. But do have some similar reasoning behind <code>await</code> as well ?

It has been [postulated](https://gist.github.com/Rich-Harris/0b6f317657f5167663b493c722647221) (with sound reasoning) that top level await is a bad idea. 

If so, are there any advantages to having `await` at all, when we already have `yield`. 

Having async is useful because an async function is guaranteed to return a promise irrespective of what is actually returned by the code. But  do have some similar reasoning behind `await` as well ?

If top level await is a bad idea, then is await worth having at all ?

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