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by sseveran 4472 days ago
javascript is not perfectly readable. For all the same reasons that other languages with poorly integrated async features are. Ahem C#, etc...
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From the article: "Promises, 'nuff said."

There are two schools of thought here. One says that concurrent programming is actually an optimization and that the language and frameworks should make it as transparent as possible. The other says that concurrent programming is fundamentally different from sequential programming and it should look differently, too.

Out of curiosity, which language you think gets concurrency right? My personal favourites are Erlang, Io and Clojure, but even there concurrency is not completely transparent.