I've actually never used any async/await stuff, so I didn't know that's what it's for. All that stuff appeared in JS (and elsewhere) after I stopped doing Web dev. These days I mostly write Haskell, which AFAIK doesn't need all of that async/await/promise stuff because its already covered by laziness.
`await` is essentially syntactic sugar that means "wrap everything after this in a callback to be executed after this function does something asynchronously."
