Re:Build your own web framework
by cercatrova on Friday July 29, 2022 @10:47PM
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Interesting. Based on this series of responses, you moved from "async is useless" to "actually, I don't actually know what async processes can do, and what happens between each process." It implies to me that your initial comment was written with little understanding of what you purported to denigrate.
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Well, I understand what they can do in desktop and mobile GUI apps. But server-side web requests don't work that way; there's a beginning and an end and a pretty straight line between the two.
Cooperative multitasking is incredible for server side applications.
Re:Build your own web framework
by eyelidlessness on Saturday July 30, 2022 @12:30AM
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This isn’t helpful. They very clearly and frankly asked. Don’t shame people for not knowing something you already know, they’ll very probably be turned off from learning it.
Re:Build your own web framework
by cercatrova on Saturday July 30, 2022 @03:00PM
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It is a different story if they asked in good faith, but they clearly started their initial comment as a derisive declaration of something being useless, so it sounded to me that they had no real intention of actually learning.
Re:Build your own web framework
by eyelidlessness on Saturday July 30, 2022 @08:35PM
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You may want to follow the thread where we continue to discuss it in good faith. I think they’re sincerely inquisitive, and sincere (and impressively candid!) in expressing their understanding gap.
I think the various “assume best intent” rules and adages would benefit greatly from a huge “assume limited familiarity when dismissiveness seems out of place” addendum. At least for technical topics where the stakes are “whoops we actually just disagree on the merits”.