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Re:Retiring Python as a Teaching Language by catnaroek on Sunday January 07, 2018 @12:43AM (#16089454)
I'm guessing you mean “no parallelism”, right? Because JavaScript has (admittedly horrible) concurrency support. Otherwise what's this “callback hell” some people complain about?
Re:Retiring Python as a Teaching Language by charlysl on Sunday January 07, 2018 @12:59AM (#16089505)
By concurrency I mean expressing in the language that a computation or operation is independent, for instance by putting it in a thread or making it lazy, and all the programming techniques that this enables: active objects, order finding (which plays very well with paralellism btw), etc.

Parallelism I see as a hardware feature that can make programs faster.

I thought about the "callback hell", this is a bit more like coroutines, a quite limited form of concurrency (like non-preemptive threads). In this sense Js is very limited in what programming techniques can be taught.

Re:Retiring Python as a Teaching Language by falafel on Sunday January 07, 2018 @12:48AM (#16089470)
Callback hell? What is this 2010? Callback hell is a non-issue in modern JS code with promises, and async/await.
Re:Retiring Python as a Teaching Language by catnaroek on Sunday January 07, 2018 @02:35AM (#16089778)
Promises don't eliminate callback hell any more than objects eliminate their underlying data structures.