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by purple-again 2120 days ago
What does that mean? Promise is an excellent one word description of the underlying phenomenon. Your language promises that the code will finish executing before the code you place in your then/error blocks allowing you to safely write some asynchronous logic in a synchronous world.
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Really? I always understood it as "we promise you this thing but all we can give you now is the promise".