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by eurasiantiger 1462 days ago
Is there some other way to do that except process.nextTick() and queueMicroTask()?

https://nodejs.org/api/process.html#processnexttickcallback-...

> It is very important for APIs to be either 100% synchronous or 100% asynchronous.

As I understand, this implementation sidesteps this hazard by providing separate internally coupled sync/async APIs kept in sync by convention around the critical internal and external conditionals. Is this correct? Is it just this sync/async code path convention that makes the implementation safe as opposed to a function directly returning a value or a Promise?

The convention does make it kludgy to use, but native alternatives would defeat the purpose or become the hazard mentioned in the documentation.

Have you considered creating a Babel macro for this?