> watch as their use becomes so hilariously common that it's now painfully obvious that the default behavior is wrong Hm. :) Hindsight being 20/20, perhaps "sy

> watch as their use becomes so hilariously common that it's now painfully obvious that the default behavior is wrong Hm. :) Hindsight being 20/20, perhaps "synchronous" was a bad default for a language embedded in an application space where the lifeblood is "network communications over unreliable channels." Still, seemed a good idea at the time(1) (1) ... at the time, they were doing a cute tech demo, there were alternative scripting languages under consideration, and I don't think anyone expected JavaScript to blow up to become the only viable option.