The Wikimedia Foundation suffered a security incident today after a self-propagating JavaScript worm began vandalizing pages and modifying user scripts across multiple wikis.

The @a_sync('async') decorator can be used to define an asynchronous function that can also be executed synchronously.

If you are interested in performing additional calculations on Promise<T>, you may find this small library useful. Mutex, producer-consumer separation (side-effect operation), signaling (flag control) ...