Show HN: Async/await alternative

by bruno2223 on 10/31/2016, 1:32 AM with 9 comments
  • by vsviridov on 10/31/2016, 8:39 AM

    Node 7 is out with async/await behind the flag.

  • by zamalek on 10/31/2016, 1:47 PM

        // the stream has now been fully read, async in the background
    What if the file is gigabytes in size?

  • by skybrian on 10/31/2016, 12:56 PM

    It's a nice trick but it's unsafe in general. JavaScript libraries usually assume single-threaded event handling. If you start up another event loop from a callback (while some other library's code is already on the stack), you'll probably break it.

  • by maxpert on 10/31/2016, 4:12 AM

    Well I hope NodeJS ultimately settles on such a syntax to preempt and resume automatically. I love Golang in this regard since it abstracts out everything using channels, and go-routines (not to compare multiple thread support).

  • by aaronhoffman on 10/31/2016, 12:03 PM

    Love the simplicity. Wish it was powered by RxJS https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/RxJS

  • by bbcbasic on 10/31/2016, 6:30 AM

    Looked at the deasync that this is based on, and it looks like they are trying to reinvent threads? Seems ironic to me.