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0 pointsNemcue11y ago0 comments

As a counterweight: I'm not a crazy smart developer, and I use those features. In production. Now.

I'm not going to argue against your point though, because I think you are right. One needs to have some grasp of the JS ecosystem to know what libraries to use. And as I said, it's nice that Dart has made that choice for you.

But that said, poking around a bit in the Dart documentation I think it's interesting that "Futures" are seemingly /not/ entirely interoperable with the de facto standard of Promises (A+) in JS.

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sethladd11y ago

I don't know enough of the intimate details of Promises to know if Future == Promise. I hope I didn't make it sound like Future == Promise, but I do think they are quite similar in intention.

Can you expand on why you think Futures aren't entirely interoperable with Promises? Also, which specific implementation of promises? (what's the link to the promises that you're talking about?)

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0 pointsNemcue11y ago0 comments

As a counterweight: I'm not a crazy smart developer, and I use those features. In production. Now.

But that said, poking around a bit in the Dart documentation I think it's interesting that "Futures" are seemingly /not/ entirely interoperable with the de facto standard of Promises (A+) in JS.

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sethladd11y ago

I don't know enough of the intimate details of Promises to know if Future == Promise. I hope I didn't make it sound like Future == Promise, but I do think they are quite similar in intention.

Can you expand on why you think Futures aren't entirely interoperable with Promises? Also, which specific implementation of promises? (what's the link to the promises that you're talking about?)

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