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Re:“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the soft... by Capt-RogerOver on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @04:34AM (#12342224)
It's not about how the processor works. A developer which is using a language of JavaScript's abstraction level does not think about exactly how a processor works. It's about how a human can easier think up a program and put it into code. And that is mostly synchronous indeed.
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Re:“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the soft... by marssaxman on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @02:54PM (#12346430)
I find that many misunderstandings of this sort arise from inadequate mental models of the underlying system, and I was trying to present the mental model I use, in which asynchronous IO patterns seem totally natural and normal. Clearly that introduced some unnecessary confusion, so I'll frame things differently next time.
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