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Re:Interview with Ryan Dahl, Creator of Node.js by sah2ed on Thursday August 31, 2017 @03:08PM (#15142901)
Callback hell was real, especially if you worked on projects that decided to join the node.js bandwagon in its early days. Then promises happened.

https://twitter.com/winterbe_/status/541868081308790784

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Re:Interview with Ryan Dahl, Creator of Node.js by mikewhy on Thursday August 31, 2017 @03:21PM (#15143054)
Why post a contrived meme as an example? Especially one with a sane solution[1] just below.

[1]: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B4W2AmaCAAA-heo.png

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Re:Interview with Ryan Dahl, Creator of Node.js by sah2ed on Thursday August 31, 2017 @04:44PM (#15143768)
It's an exaggeration, yes, but it does correctly summarize how I felt when I had to work with node.js code bases before stuff like promises became mainstream.
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Re:Interview with Ryan Dahl, Creator of Node.js by andreime on Friday September 01, 2017 @06:21AM (#15147303)
An exaggeration could be written for any language. A decent programmer would not write code like the one you showcased as an example for callback hell.

This https://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/2.5.x/javadoc-api/org/spr... is not an exaggeration and I still would not use it to showcase how I felt when I had to work with Java developers.

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