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Comment by fooyc

This is a big improvement, however this is still explicit/userland asynchronous programming: If anything down the callstack is synchronous, it blocks everything. This requires every components of a program, including every dependency, to be specifically designed for this kind of concurency.

Async I/O gives awesome performance, but further abstractions would make it easier and less risky to use. Designing everything around the fact that a program uses async I/O, including things that have nothing to do with I/O, is crazy.

Programming languages have the power to implement concurrency patterns that offer the same kind of performances, without the hassle.

parent fooyc 7 years ago

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