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by matttthompson 4282 days ago
> Was there any reason why you chose callbacks over a Promise-like pattern for the async responses?

Deeply-nested networking callbacks are a code smell, and I find that promises often do more harm by hiding those smells—or worse, obscuring the flow itself. In practice, Alamofire is mostly going to be single or at most nested two levels deep anyway.