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That changes by language - what you say is true in Scala, but in JavaScript the terminology is different. A future is not defined, a promise is a future and a d
by inglor 11y ago
That changes by language - what you say is true in Scala, but in JavaScript the terminology is different. A future is not defined, a promise is a future and a deferred is a promise.
- btilly 11y agoThat is what I mean about people being inconsistent. The ideas are much older than Scala, JavaScript, and many of the people commenting in this discussion. Believe it or not, both terms date back to the late 1970s. Scala got it right. JavaScript got it wrong. And polyglots like me have to suffer with having to sort out who means what, where, on what platform.