Re:Making the Most of the JavaScript Language (2016)
by olalonde on Thursday August 03, 2017 @07:23PM
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> It just seems like people added a ton of complexity to give up a few keystrokes.
It's either "only syntactic sugar" or it "added a ton of complexity". To be honest, you sound like someone who's bitter because all the hard stuff you had to learn to deal with is now super simple and intuitive.
> I like JavaScript's concurrency model (single threaded with callbacks) so I don't see any benefit to the async stuff.
This sentence also demonstrates you either don't understand the concurrency model or async/await (async/await doesn't change the concurrency model).
The syntactic sugar isn't only there to save keystrokes, it also makes code easier to read and is less prone to errors.
It's either "only syntactic sugar" or it "added a ton of complexity". To be honest, you sound like someone who's bitter because all the hard stuff you had to learn to deal with is now super simple and intuitive.
> I like JavaScript's concurrency model (single threaded with callbacks) so I don't see any benefit to the async stuff.
This sentence also demonstrates you either don't understand the concurrency model or async/await (async/await doesn't change the concurrency model).
The syntactic sugar isn't only there to save keystrokes, it also makes code easier to read and is less prone to errors.