Charles Pick

@chrisdickinson ok but that only covers core APIs, it doesn't work for the general case and it seems like that is what people who are advocating for this are looking...

Bikeshed: I firmly believe it's safer and more sensible to call this `require('fs/2')` instead of `require('fs/promise')`. This gives us a safe path to introducing changes which would otherwise cause compatibility...

I agree that it might be contentious but the reason is social not technical, whereas the benefits of using `/2` is technical - it lets us evolve the API. If...

> I think that this attitude where callbacks are "older" and promises are "the next API which people should default to using" will not ever get promises into node core....

@benjamingr I'm not talking about observables specifically, rather how this kind of disruptive change is accommodated in future - in this case we're talking about promises, maybe next time we'll...