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"There's no reason to be in callback hell if you use an asynchronous control flow library"

There's no good reason to pile flawed layers on top of eachother. If you have a fully yieldable/resumable VM (e.g. Lua), you can just solve the problem properly in the first place, in a way that doesn't then require a second or third layer of workarounds to be usable.

OpenResty consistently handles 5 times more connections than Node.js, without requiring any of the continuation passing nonsense. As usual, popularity doesn't reflect upon quality at all -- Node.js is the Kim Kardashian of web frameworks.
"OUR THOUGHTS. YOUR EXPERT TECHNOLOGY ADVISORS"

Quite possibly the most arrogant tag line I've ever read.