4 ms·

Pretty sure a callback vs synchronous style of coding is a little more than syntactic sugar. It's a complete shift in application design... If I have to flatm

• capableweb 6y ago
  > Pretty sure a callback vs synchronous style of coding is a little more than syntactic sugar Absolutely, asynchronous and synchronous are two very different patterns when programming with very different trade offs for both of them, but async/await is not synchronous, it only make that particular call _look_ synchronous, while actually being asynchronous. Failing to understand that async/await is just syntactic sugar for dealing with asynchronous programming will sooner or later bite you. Here is a gist that shows why async/await is not really synchronous (blocking) programming: https://gist.github.com/matt-mcalister/3f060bf32d292cfebc9448e210e043e2 https://gist.github.com/matt-mcalister/3f060bf32d292cfebc944...