The entire premise of callbacks is that threads were a mistake because they broke sequential reasoning and control. JK, obviously callbacks became prominent as

The entire premise of callbacks is that threads were a mistake because they broke sequential reasoning and control. JK, obviously callbacks became prominent as a result of folks looking for creative solutions to the C10K[0] problem, but threads have a long history of haters[1][2][3]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C10k_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C10k_problem [1] https://brendaneich.com/2007/02/threads-suck/ https://brendaneich.com/2007/02/threads-suck/ [2] https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/threads.pdf https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/threads.pdf [3] https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-1.pdf https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-...