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async/await came out of Microsoft research; each year they build and test dozens of concepts. Struck gold with async/await and within a couple years that patter
by DylanDmitri 6y ago
async/await came out of Microsoft research; each year they build and test dozens of concepts. Struck gold with async/await and within a couple years that pattern got retrofitted into most major languages (JS, Python, Rust, C++, C#)
I was wrong about Golang and Typescript, I did some reading and found most of their signature features in older languages.
WASM is some sort of political consortium building triumph, but I think has more potential than everything else on the list. The performance is shockingly good (see Google Blob Opera, Mozilla Pyiodide, etc). Over the next decade everything will become a fast Electron app.
- chrisseaton 6y ago> async/await came out of Microsoft research I don't think this is the case - most people trace it back to Peng Li's paper in 2007. These are all good engineering, but they aren't research.