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It's not about how the processor works. A developer which is using a language of JavaScript's abstraction level does not think about exactly how a processor wor
by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
It's not about how the processor works. A developer which is using a language of JavaScript's abstraction level does not think about exactly how a processor works.
It's about how a human can easier think up a program and put it into code. And that is mostly synchronous indeed.
- marssaxman 10y agoI find that many misunderstandings of this sort arise from inadequate mental models of the underlying system, and I was trying to present the mental model I use, in which asynchronous IO patterns seem totally natural and normal. Clearly that introduced some unnecessary confusion, so I'll frame things differently next time.