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by maskaler 1533 days ago
Is there a concerted effort within the Java community to avoid async/await semantics? Genuinely curious whether a discussion has been had.
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Vert.x is what you're looking for.

That being said, async/Callbacks tend to create a pile of spaghetti, with no measurable performance gain. It's certainly a style of doing things and it creates an odd abstraction that really doesn't mirror the way our [current] computers operate.

The benefit of "fibers" or "green threads" is they are less of a jump and doesn't involve rewriting everything.

Scroll through https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... for some inside takes from a loomperson.
It is going to be fun to watch how Kotlin will manage their vision of the world on top of virtual threads.