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STOP DOING ASYNC (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by Maven to c/[email protected]

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[–] [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.