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Re:“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the soft... by jackweirdy on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @05:19AM (#12342379)
Fortunately JavaScript is a flexible enough language that you don't only have to use the primitives it provides.

Promises (which were pure JS before they were ever added to the language) are a more-composable structure for reasoning about concurrency. I don't think I've put more than one line of callback-style code into production per month.

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Re:“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the soft... by Klathmon on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @05:40AM (#12342460)
And async/await are such a game changer its amazing.

I finally bit the bullet and tried it even though it's still not final syntax, it simplified most of my code while keeping the execution exactly the same.

It really is a night and day difference.

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