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Babel can transform async functions into Bluebird coroutines, so the best of both worlds - https://www.npmjs.com/package/babel-plugin-transform-async-t...

Yes but with this you lose the powerful features I just mentioned: automatic resource cleanup[1], cancellation, yield handlers.. don't you?

No I think those should work with async functions as it is literally just translating `async` -> `yield`, but worth investigating.