I'm glad this was the top post. I don't think events are an anti-pattern, but they are way the hell overused. Part of the overuse is using (name something)MQ fo

I'm glad this was the top post. I don't think events are an anti-pattern, but they are way the hell overused. Part of the overuse is using (name something)MQ for everything, not just for centralized persistent async and pubsub in large systems. Part of it is because of functional languages making a comeback in the past several years, which then settled down again after a spike; They don't require being event driven of course, but stateless systems are the gateway drug to overly event-driven. And part of it is JavaScript's fault- if you were in JS in the bad old days of early Ajax, you knows what I mean, and JQuery just made it easier- but promises hide the fact now that so much is async, though I think promises are just as bad if not worse because they hide a lot of nonsense.