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Re:“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the soft... by azernik on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @01:13AM (#12341553)
On the subject of nice higher-level concurrency abstractions, I'm very taken with the current fad for Promises/Futures (a la ES6 or Scala), which are basically a translation of the Haskell IO monad to plain English.
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Re:“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the soft... by gclaramunt on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @02:17PM (#12346046)
Isn't closer to the Async monad?
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