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Re:Show HN: Nsynjs – JS engine with stoppable threads and wi... by BinaryIdiot on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @02:00AM (#14407884)
While I don't use async / await right now, mostly because it's not natively available in all of the target browsers I want to use, I'm not the biggest fan of the pattern. It takes previously asynchronous functions and makes them appear as synchronous. The worst part is with some asynchronous methods you can't use async / await so now you have synchronous and asynchronous code that appears identical while also having some other asynchronous code that appears more traditional.

Overall it just ends up being a bit inconsistent for my tastes. But I like that we're trying more things to evolve the language to avoid common pitfalls like callback hell

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Re:Show HN: Nsynjs – JS engine with stoppable threads and wi... by BoorishBears on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @10:14AM (#14410134)
It's funny watching part of the history of C# replay itself in Js, I heard the same arguments when it was playing out in C# (TPL => Promises, await/async => await/async)
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