[gorjusborg]

I felt the same way coming from a threaded language.

Learning the event loop, then promises, then async/await is a must. Today, you probably should throw typescript on top.

A steep learning curve just to get back to a typed language that can do things concurrently.

You do get used to it, but it is a mess of stuff.

[wonnage]

Threads are their own steep learning curve, I think it's just hard to do two things at once.

[PaulDavisThe1st]

It's easy to do two things at once when you can ask two different entities to do them for you (threads).

What's hard is thinking about how to coordinate the work they are doing for you: when to consider them done, how to ask them if they did the work successfully, what to do if they need to use the same tool at some point during the work etc.

[rwalle]

This is ridiculous. Handling real threads is much more complicated than handling async calls and the event loop of JavaScript.

[gorjusborg]

Languages with threading require learning techniques to use them safely and many, including myself, have learned how.

Even if concurrency is easier to get right on node I'd say the node ecosystem has just layered on complexity in other ways to get to something just as difficult to use overall.

Promises and async/await sugar are only the tip of the iceberg.

[AA-BA-94-2A-56]

/r/gatekeeping