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Re:WebAssembly: A promising technology that is quietly being... by anakaine on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @04:16PM (#40445857)
Agree wholesale. I've got a complex data reader built on a single server that receives tens of thousands of requests a day, and most tend to happen in a few hour window. Async was super important to scale to user requests by allowing non-blocking calls to not get captured behind blocking ones.
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Re:WebAssembly: A promising technology that is quietly being... by tommiegannert on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @04:44PM (#40446285)
I think GP is arguing that green threads e.g. in Go is a better way to structure the same thing.
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Re:WebAssembly: A promising technology that is quietly being... by worik on Thursday May 23, 2024 @04:44AM (#40452177)
No. I had a nasty experience with Typescript's async/await and I am annoyed

I find async/await very confusing. It as one thing pretending to be another

I prefer my paradigms simple and straight

Async await is deceptively simple but very wiggly. Not straight at all. Loads of magic fairy dust obscuring what's really happening

It is helpful until it isn't and then it's very unhelpful

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