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0 pointsanakaine1y ago0 comments

Agree wholesale. I've got a complex data reader built on a single server that receives tens of thousands of requests a day, and most tend to happen in a few hour window. Async was super important to scale to user requests by allowing non-blocking calls to not get captured behind blocking ones.

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tommiegannert1y ago

I think GP is arguing that green threads e.g. in Go is a better way to structure the same thing.

worik1y ago

No. I had a nasty experience with Typescript's async/await and I am annoyed

I find async/await very confusing. It as one thing pretending to be another

I prefer my paradigms simple and straight

Async await is deceptively simple but very wiggly. Not straight at all. Loads of magic fairy dust obscuring what's really happening

It is helpful until it isn't and then it's very unhelpful

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