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Re:What the Hell Is a Deno? by jfkebwjsbx on Thursday June 04, 2020 @04:55AM (#23414272)
Why do you need async for "anything networked"? Genuinely asking.

There are many ways of doing I/O, but nowadays everyone seems to do everything async without giving it a second thought.

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Re:What the Hell Is a Deno? by hombre_fatal on Thursday June 04, 2020 @07:15AM (#23415105)
It's more about the concurrency abstractions available. And half the joy of writing async code in JS is that it's single-threaded.

Doing many things at the same is inherent to doing networked stuff. How ergonomic that is going to be is one of the only real things that sets languages apart.

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