Async/await became ergonomic and widespread only recently, I am sure there were async systems in the '80 but for example nodejs focus on non blocking I/O changed how a lot of people thought about servers and concurrency (whether node was first is almost irrelevant)
Often when something is discovered or invented is far less influential[1] than when it jumps on and hype train.
[1] the discovery is very important for historical and epistemological reasons of course, rewriting the past is bad
Often when something is discovered or invented is far less influential[1] than when it jumps on and hype train.
[1] the discovery is very important for historical and epistemological reasons of course, rewriting the past is bad