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But doing things by hand with callbacks is going to have all of those same issues isnt it? If you dont want to infect everything then you basically need to just

• masklinn 13y ago
  Correct. Same with introducing futures/deferred.
• raverbashing 13y ago
  The issue I see is that with some libraries you either go 100% async or 100% sync with no middle ground.
  • danabramov 13y ago
    This is simply not true. You can use any C# library without using async (code rewriter). You'd still be using Tasks but there is nothing special about them (no compiler magic). They're just futures on which you can schedule continuations.
    • raverbashing 13y ago
      I'm not talking about C#, but about libraries in other languages that support async behaviour
      • angersock 13y ago
        PDFJS--the PDF reading package from Mozilla--is a gross offender in this regard; the mix of sync and async, and the somewhat arbitrary nature of which is which, is pretty annoying.