Unfortunately, async and await didn't make it into ES7. ES2016 (ES7) was finalized with Array.prototype.includes and the exponentiation operator [0]. We'll have to wait for ES2017 at the earliest for async/await to make it into the official spec [1][2].

[0] http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/7.0/ [1] https://github.com/tc39/proposals [2] http://www.2ality.com/2016/02/ecmascript-2017.html