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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well I just told you another one, one actually relevant to the conversation at hand, since it's the only one you can use with JavaScript in the context of a web browser.

[–] MantisWaffle 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

You cant say async is the fundamentally better model because threading is purposely crippled in the browser.

The conversation at hand is not "how do io in browser". Its "async is not inherently better than threads"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

No, because async is fundamentally a paradigm for how to express asynchronous programming, i.e. situations where you need to wait for something else to happen, threading is not an alternative to that, callbacks are.

[–] MantisWaffle 0 points 11 months ago

Threads are callbacks.