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Ignoring the fact that XMLHttpRequest is a hideously unlovely API, it's a huge problem when your primary asynchronous abstraction is not implemented by your pri
by melolife 4y ago
Ignoring the fact that XMLHttpRequest is a hideously unlovely API, it's a huge problem when your primary asynchronous abstraction is not implemented by your primary API for async IO.
- iostream24 4y agoThat’s an opinion, not a fact, re: hideous etc. Please explain the latter bit again. I too see no need to switch suddenly to this fetch api when older browser support is important to my daily driver web app. I found the tone of this article condescending when browser apis have mega committee-ware battlescars all over them and likely implement both of xyz with the same call to epoll anyway, (joke about systems programming)