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Re:Why choose async/await over threads? by geodel on Monday March 25, 2024 @10:52AM (#39817064)
> was about marketing the language to JavaScript people is just wrong.

No it seems very right to me. Rust despite being "Systems language" was not satisfied with market size of systems programing and they really needed all those millions of JS programmers to make language a big success.

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Re:Why choose async/await over threads? by withoutboats3 on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @08:41AM (#39827116)
This is a lie. Async/await was developed to support systems that need to use non-blocking IO for performance reasons, not to appeal to JS programmers.
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