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Re:Yahoo Mail moving to React by gasping on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @04:39PM (#8664759)
> If you have callback hell, it is an expression of muddled thought.

No. It's an indication that you're using a FOTM runtime environment. There's a reason why no production-ready runtime uses continous passing / callback models.

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Re:Yahoo Mail moving to React by kxo on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @07:03PM (#8665281)
Really? How do you suppose nginx does it?

Or any of the other top-end (in requests/sec) webservers?

Hint: they aren't utilizing green threading and/or a scheduler.

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Re:Yahoo Mail moving to React by woah on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @04:44PM (#8664789)
I know a lot of people running node in production, and getting very high performance out of it. It may anger hacker news that such a thing is even possible, but there you have it.
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