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by ergothus 2230 days ago
But until recently an unhandled promise failure was NOT a thrown error, and when it is it's not the error you want.
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Absolutely! I guess what I'm trying to say is that in my experience, crashing on an unhandled rejection is a better remedy to the dangling promise problem than banning them outright.
There is a saying - what you don't know can't hurt you. The idea of Promises comes from strongly typed static functional languages. Adding it to JavaScript was a terrible idea. Like with static modules - forcing the user to download the whole website/app before anything is rendered on the screen.
Lol what are you on about.

You're mixing so many different things right now.