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0 pointskortex2y ago0 comments

The whole reason async is even a thing is due to slow, side-effect producing operations. Of course pure functions are easy to parallelize.

I don't think folks so much "shoe horn async where it is unnecessary" as the red/blue problem causes async code in most languages to spread.

Or by "async" do you just mean concurrent code? I'm reading "async" to mean lightweight coroutines or similar.

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unblough2y ago

> Or by "async" do you just mean concurrent code? I'm reading "async" to mean lightweight coroutines or similar.

Yeah, my bad, I was utilizing a colloquial definition of a term that has a technical definition in a technical conversation. A lamentation lo the lossyness of language.

I guess I assumed we were talking about something other than in terms of red/blue because I'd argue red/blue's "hard"ness transcends myth to mathematical fact.

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