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by kubb 22 days ago
Every time this is posted, it’s worth reminding: async functions in JavaScript are the correct design, and the people who did it deserve praise.
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tikotus 21 days ago
C# (and F# before it) got it (mostly) right. JS did a shallow copy of it, messing up some details, making it harder to use for certain things.
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moomin 22 days ago
Making await flatten promises was kind of questionable. But that’s my main beef.
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lmm 21 days ago
Async functions are an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of monad support.
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