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Can you point to anything other than saying "this is obvious"?

• nailer 6y ago
  No, just experience with a lot of codebases. Here's a simple question to ask yourself: what if non-IO operations allowed you to use the .then() syntax? If you have the choice to use: 1 + 1.then(function(result) { ... } vs const result = 1 + 1 Which would you choose?
  • pavlov 6y ago
    Using then() doesn't pause execution of the callsite function, while await does. Surely that's a relevant difference here? It doesn't seem unreasonable to use then() to express: "Run this anonymous function whenever the async thing completes. Meanwhile let's do this other stuff right now."
    • nailer 6y ago
      Both codebases can't do anything until `result` has a value.