alt Hacker NewsI had the same question, actually; it is very common to perform multiple point-of-no-return IO in a workflow, so deferring all IO into a specific spot does not, in practice, bring any advantages.
I had the same question, actually; it is very common to perform multiple point-of-no-return IO in a workflow, so deferring all IO into a specific spot does not, in practice, bring any advantages.
It does. You queue ALL of these side effects (simply tasks whose exceptions don't rollback your own task) until the end. Then you can perform them all, in parallel if you wish.