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Re:The melting pot of JavaScript (2017) by beatgammit on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @08:56PM (#18861658)
I don't think it is overlooked. JavaScript doesn't scale, both in terms of code complexity (callback hell) and across cores, and the "gold standard" these days is microservices, which has a ton of issues.

If you want to look at bolt-on async working, check out C# or Rust. They've basically taken JavaScript's new async/await and added threading (at least Rust has, not sure about C#). You can write an async app and have it run in a thread pool without much fuss.

I don't know what the story is for Java, but seeing as C# is effectively the same thing, it's not hard to imagine adding async being easier than adding threads or performance to JavaScript.

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Re:The melting pot of JavaScript (2017) by joelfolksy on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @04:23PM (#18869039)
FYI, async/await (a promise type + async function decoration + await expressions) was actually invented by C#. It was designed to operate seamlessly with .NET's concurrency framework, the TPL, which uses a thread pool. So it was actually the case that Javascript took async/await and removed threading.
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