[archarios]

What are you talking about? if you're async operation fails then your callback should always still be called but just with an error message in the second parameter typically. And what are you doing still giving call backs to async functions? Why are you not using promises?

[jmull]

I think previous poster is talking about a bug where the promise is never resolve nor rejected. So it just hangs out there, unresolved, forever.

I don't think using explicit callbacks helps, though, which has the same potential issue (worse really, since you're probably handling callbacks directly more often, depending on the patterns you use).

[galaxyLogic]

Right. Except I was able to experiment with a wrapper-function which set up a timeout on the callback which threw an error if the callback was not called within a set interval of time.

It helped to detect some flaws in my program.

A similar thing could no doubt be done with promises. But I think the best solution would be if there was a built-in facility to detect callbacks that were not called within a required or default time interval.

Eventually I stopped using the timeout wrapper, it didn't help very much, but made the code more complex. More but easier to understand code is often my preferred choice.

Whereas if language itself offers built-in facilities then fine since they are more likely to be bugfree than my own code.