I've read that article too. It seems to me that async/wait is a more elegant approach than twisting the yield semantics. However I don't quite see how this differs from blocking I/O calls and threads.
These are cooperative threads, wihch were also an acceptable programming model in the 60's On Friday, 16 August 2013 19:05:39 UTC+2, // ravi wrote: > > > Apropos earlier threads, Miguel de Icaza has an interesting blog post on > callbacks and C#Async: > > http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2013/Aug-15.html > > He writes: > > > Just like in the Go To days, or the days of manual memory management, we > are turning into glorified accountants. Check every code path for the > proper state to be properly reset, updated, disposed, released. > > I agree with him on this, despite JavaScript closures. If anything, > closures can potentially exacerbate the memory accounting problem. > > I think he is also right in quoting Dijkstra (I reproduce part of the > quote below): > > > [O]ur intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations > and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively > poorly developed. For that reason we should do (as wise programmers aware > of our limitations) our utmost to shorten the conceptual gap between the > static program and the dynamic process, to make the correspondence between > the program (spread out in text space) and the process (spread out in time) > as trivial as possible. > > > Lest I be perceived as “complaining”, I bring this up as academically > interesting, not as a bumptious attempt to influence the future of NodeJS > :-). > > —ravi > > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
