alt Hacker NewsThreads are neither better or worse than async+callbacks. They are different. There are problems which map nicely to threads and there are problems which are much nicer to express with async.
Threads are neither better or worse than async+callbacks. They are different. There are problems which map nicely to threads and there are problems which are much nicer to express with async.
Such as? The entire premise of async is that callbacks were a mistake because they broke sequential reasoning and control.
Every explanation of the feature starts with managing callback hell.