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Re:V8 adds support for top-level await by jcelerier on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @02:49AM (#21068357)
> (also ignorant, because 1990s C was decidedly synchronous)

unless you were programming in... any GUI toolkit ever except the most toy ones ? even win 3.1 GUI primitives were async

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Re:V8 adds support for top-level await by jnbiche on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @04:14PM (#21074825)
Yeah, fair point. Technically, windows was C++ but close enough, plus as you say other Gui toolkits also used async. And I should have remembered that since Gui libraries used async for the same reason as browser JS. It's not good to block the UI thread.

I was thinking about C network programming, which despite what people are saying on here, was not event driven in the 1990s (I was there).

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