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Re:Zones – Robust error handling and flow control for Node.js by munro on Thursday May 29, 2014 @03:54PM (#7818248)
The comparison page highlights that Zone.js is better than promises because of long stack traces [1], but most promise implementations already have that [2]. I'm confused, that seems to be the only comparison to promises.

Edit: Conceptually it seems the same as promises. The main difference seems to be that they've added hooks [3] into the pipeline, and they duck punch the core API to intercept errors. Bluebird has solved this without duck punching using `Promise.promisifyAll(require("fs"))` [4]. I would love to see a write up on Zone.js's forks, because the article could of trivially been rewriten to use promises.

[1] http://strongloop.com/strongblog/comparing-node-js-promises-... [2] https://github.com/kriskowal/q#long-stack-traces [3] https://github.com/btford/zone.js/#zonefork [4] https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird

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Re:Zones – Robust error handling and flow control for Node.js by piscisaureus on Thursday May 29, 2014 @05:01PM (#7818571)
Note that the comparison page doesn't have the "zone" library we just announced on it. Zone.js is conceptually a bit different and it targets browsers.
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