I get asked this question a lot — I help maintain redux-saga.

I recently gave a talk where this question came up: https://youtu.be/uRbqLGj_6mI?t=2166

I’ve also imposed generators on a lot of colleagues.

I think they are mostly misunderstood and potentially in the realm of being “magical” — at least on the surface.

The reality is they are syntactic sugar on top of functions with recursive switch statements where each case is a yield point.

They aren’t that hard to grok — the syntax is mind bending. Having code that looks synchronous but behaves asynchronous is “magical.”

I think it does come down to that because everyone loves async/await even tho that’s just sugar on generators where each yield must be a promise.