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by scottmf 3253 days ago
Why would you want to use callbacks?

Here's a code example from an npm package I was looking at, vs how I would rewrite it in modern JS:

https://gist.github.com/scf4/8157abd755eb9c232e87dcc342b78b4...

Some of it may be preference but a lot of it is objectively simpler to reason about.

I don't understand why anyone would choose to make things unnecessarily complex.