[snek]

there are no "async" or "sync" imports in js. there are static and dynamic imports. An implementation is free to spend as much time as it likes between parsing a file to get the static imports and actually running the file doing whatever it likes, including fetching urls, reading the file system, etc. dynamic imports return a promise but the implementation is free to resolve that promise immediately (e.g. `return Promise.resolve(loadSync(module))`)

[ravenstine]

I suppose that makes sense since loading a module from a file on a disk isn't all that different from loading a file over a TCP connection.