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0 pointsBerislavLopac1y ago0 comments

> Async is syntactic sugar that can be reduced to sync code with callbacks

The whole point of introducing async was to get away from callback hell.

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Yeah, I’m not saying that callbacks are good, I’m saying that async is a veneer over callbacks.

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0 pointsBerislavLopac1y ago0 comments

> Async is syntactic sugar that can be reduced to sync code with callbacks

The whole point of introducing async was to get away from callback hell.

Yeah, I’m not saying that callbacks are good, I’m saying that async is a veneer over callbacks.

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