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Re:The Problem of Async Programming, and a Crazy Idea for So... by lorean_victor on Monday December 10, 2018 @07:20PM (#18652334)
Yeah I don't think so that on its own the visual programming makes any difference (or even adds any value). The main point here is that the "visual programming" is coincidentally a solution for async programming.
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Re:The Problem of Async Programming, and a Crazy Idea for So... by karmakaze on Monday December 10, 2018 @08:07PM (#18652544)
The actual problem with async functions is mixing them with non-async ones. Having all futures/promises makes it easy. Now if the visual style could represent current mixed js code, that could be awesome for display and editing I'd have to try before deciding.
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Re:The Problem of Async Programming, and a Crazy Idea for So... by lorean_victor on Monday December 10, 2018 @08:25PM (#18652630)
Yeah we reached that point pretty early on while developing the PaaS with the tool, so had to incorporate support for mixed synchronous JS blocks. you can check out how to do that here: https://medium.com/connect-platform/inline-coding-in-connect...
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