I'm sorry if this has been discussed before, but I couldn't find anything. This a modest proposal to introduce sync APIs in Node.js
A lot of people would like to use Javascript for their web backend, but don't want to program in an async style (I believe those reasons have already been discussed at length). As it stands right now, it is practically impossible to program in Node.js in a sync style, since most core modules and native extensions only provide an async interface. I believe there would be an easy way to change the status quo without impacting developers who chose to adhere to a strict async style. The solution I propose is simply a pattern for writing I/O APIs: every I/O call should be async *unless* no call back is supplied, in which case the I/O call should be sync and use return / throw statements instead of calling a callback. There is probably a flaw in my reasoning since I'm probably not the first one to come up with this pattern. That being said, I think it would be an elegant way to make both async/sync fans happy while keeping all the backend JS community focused on one project rather than fragmenting the community in multiple CommonJS server implementations. Thoughts? -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
