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Re:Thoughts on Rails, Node, and the web apps of today by pwpwp on Thursday July 12, 2012 @11:39AM (#4235079)
Programming against system calls doesn't suffer from this problem. In fact, if you use synchronous system calls, the OS does exactly what you're asking for: switching contexts when appropriate.
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Re:Thoughts on Rails, Node, and the web apps of today by ef4 on Thursday July 12, 2012 @01:27PM (#4235569)
That's true. I was referring to the non-ability to throw meaningful exceptions, which is a side-effect of Node's inversion of control.

Basically it means you can't rely on exceptions at all, so you're back in a "always check for the error code" world.

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