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gevent handles async fine without the explicit async/await

.NET core will introduce something similar

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The cost of it is that when you need to make something explicitly async, you have to wrap it into a greenlet in a much more involved way.

JavaScript lets you do it much more ergonomically.

Doesn't seem very involved; for example (cilk inspired syntax):

    let f = spawn { print() }  // fork
    ...
    wait f // join. f is a linear type

You only pay the complexity cost if you need it.

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The cost of it is that when you need to make something explicitly async, you have to wrap it into a greenlet in a much more involved way.

JavaScript lets you do it much more ergonomically.

Doesn't seem very involved; for example (cilk inspired syntax):

    let f = spawn { print() }  // fork
    ...
    wait f // join. f is a linear type

You only pay the complexity cost if you need it.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse