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Re:JavaScript async/await implemented in V8 by moron4hire on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @08:05AM (#11712865)
Fetch API also doesn't have any means of tracking progress, making it strictly inferior to XmlHTTPRequest
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Re:JavaScript async/await implemented in V8 by nailer on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @09:10AM (#11713277)
In fetch's defence it will in future once the Streams API is finalised: https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/21
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Re:JavaScript async/await implemented in V8 by neoeldex on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @08:16AM (#11712935)
Fetch does have streaming uploads and downloads, and a quite some other features which doesn't come with xmlHttpRequest. Making it not strictly inferior to XMLHttpRequest
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Re:JavaScript async/await implemented in V8 by moron4hire on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @10:08AM (#11713733)
Will have. Future tense. Not present tense.
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Re:JavaScript async/await implemented in V8 by mathias on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @03:17PM (#11716480)
Present tense: https://domenic.github.io/streams-demo/
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