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Re:Vigil: The eternal morally vigilant programming language by andreareina on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @08:31PM (#25054561)
I'd call your article on dartfmt[1] a classic as well.

[1] http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/09/08/the-hardest-pro...

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Re:Vigil: The eternal morally vigilant programming language by andrewflnr on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @08:57PM (#25054739)
"What color is your function" also seems to have leaked out into the general lexicon of discussions about async code.
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Re:Vigil: The eternal morally vigilant programming language by hobofan on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @03:01AM (#25056411)
It's sadly being flung around as a bad argument against async in general though, even when it doesn't apply (e.g. in languages that can use an async function from a non-async function).
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Re:Vigil: The eternal morally vigilant programming language by layoutIfNeeded on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @05:23AM (#25057169)
Such as?
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Re:Vigil: The eternal morally vigilant programming language by hobofan on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @10:01AM (#25058902)
As a recent addition, Zig is "colorblind"[0]. In Rust and some other languages you can also just run an async function in a blocking way, which will defeat some of the benefits of async functions but prevents color sprawl.

[0]: https://kristoff.it/blog/zig-colorblind-async-await/

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