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Show HN: Async/await alternative

• maxpert 10y ago
  Well I hope NodeJS ultimately settles on such a syntax to preempt and resume automatically. I love Golang in this regard since it abstracts out everything using channels, and go-routines (not to compare multiple thread support).
• bbcbasic 10y ago
  Looked at the deasync that this is based on, and it looks like they are trying to reinvent threads? Seems ironic to me.
  • jjnoakes 10y ago
    Why do you think they are trying to reinvent threads? Looks to me like it is a basic nested event loop.
    • bbcbasic 10y ago
      It pauses execution of a stack when it is blocked allowing other stacks to execute.
• vsviridov 10y ago
  Node 7 is out with async/await behind the flag.
• aaronhoffman 10y ago
  Love the simplicity. Wish it was powered by RxJS https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/RxJS https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/RxJS
• skybrian 10y ago
  It's a nice trick but it's unsafe in general. JavaScript libraries usually assume single-threaded event handling. If you start up another event loop from a callback (while some other library's code is already on the stack), you'll probably break it.
• zamalek 10y ago
  // the stream has now been fully read, async in the background What if the file is gigabytes in size?
  • bruno2223 10y ago
    Then you simply do not use this module :-) Unless you have Time and RAM to waste.