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I didnt say race conditions are impossible in Nodejs. Just highlighted that good program engineering is enough to avoid it and programmers should do that in the

I didnt say race conditions are impossible in Nodejs. Just highlighted that good program engineering is enough to avoid it and programmers should do that in the first place.

aaomidi 6y ago
Sure but at the same time there is a reason synchronization primitives exist. Readability of code > everything else.
- piterrro 6y ago
  Nodejs doesn't have synchronization primitives, just because you use Promise and assign it to variable "mutex" doesn't make it any more real
  - emteycz 6y ago
    What do you think is the real thing? It's also a value in a memory cell.
    - aaomidi 6y ago
      Yup :) https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/sync/mutex.go https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/sync/mutex.go You can easily see what Go does here. It's not magic.
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dboreham 6y ago
It would be better if I had the time today to refute this in detail, because it's important that others reading this thread know this assertion is false, but...it's false.
cphoover 6y ago
Agreed Over the past 10 years, I've done async code to coordinate lots of different concurrent tasks in JS, never once needed a the use of a mutex.