1414726 - Implement top-level await in developer console

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1410820

(DevTools :: Console, enhancement)

Description

[Arthur Edelstein [:arthur]]

It would be very helpful if we could use await in the developer console at top level.

STR:
1. Open a web console
2. Enter `await Promise.resolve("hello");`

Results:
SyntaxError: await is only valid in async functions

Expected
"hello" is returned.

(There would also need to be a way to interrupt a promise that never returns to avoid hanging the console.)

See also similar chromium bug at https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=658558

Comment 1

[Nicolas Chevobbe [:nchevobbe][PTO - back on October 21]]

Hello, 

Thanks for reporting.
I'm putting this as a duplicate of Bug 1410820 where we already started a conversation on how to implement this.

Comment 2

[Arthur Edelstein [:arthur]]

Aha, I didn't see that one. Thanks!