Promise.timeout()

💡 Ideas
1

There should be a timeout() or delay() method on the Promise object for a cleaner way to add a delay in an async code block.

await Promise.timeout(1000);

equivalent to

await new Promise(t => setTimeout(t, 1000));

2

setTimeout isn't in the language, however, and I suspect there will be a lot of pushback if adding any kind of "timer" is attempted.

3

setTimeout isn't in the language, however, and I suspect there will be a lot of pushback if adding any kind of "timer" is attempted.

+1 to standardize setTimeout among engines and Promise.timeout if possible.

duktape has example-implementation of eventloop/setTimeout in pure javascript which could serve as polyfill [1]. even if engines implement it suboptimally (duktape example is O(n) timer-insertion), its still better than not having setTimeout at all.

[1] Pure ECMAScript eventloop example