Callbacks are no more 'what actually happens' than coroutines are; what actually happens involves a lot of jumping to memory addresses, and closure state is jus

Callbacks are no more 'what actually happens' than coroutines are; what actually happens involves a lot of jumping to memory addresses, and closure state is just as much a compiler invention as async/await. Blocking-style code, by comparison, is how we actually think about the business logic; language features that abstract over callback hell to let you write it make code inherently more clear. People always say it because it's true.