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Citation please? Clojure has some awesome libraries, but unless you can show some use cases where futures/promises and core.async make it possible (or even jus

• profquail 13y ago
  Replying to myself, since I can't edit my post anymore -- Futures and promises aren't unique to Clojure. For example, AliceML had them ages ago. After thinking it over, I'm going try implementing them for my ExtCore library for F# (https://github.com/jack-pappas/ExtCore https://github.com/jack-pappas/ExtCore). Thanks to the GP for the idea.
• _halgari 13y ago
  CSP gives you everything async/await gives you, plus more. Channels can act as throw away promises, or as continual streams of events. Add to that the power of alt! (http://clojure.github.io/core.async/#clojure.core.async/alt! http://clojure.github.io/core.async/#clojure.core.async/alt!) and you got some very powerful primitives. There's nothing about async/await that's really new. You can implement these on top of yield (C#/Python), or with any language that supports the pausing and resuming of execution. In Clojure CSP is implemented as a library (core.async), no changes to the compiler needed. Now that's power. (disclosure, I helped write core.async)
  • profquail 13y ago
    I agree, async is much more flexible and powerful when it's a library feature (as it is in F#) as opposed to being a built-in language feature (as it is in C# 5). core.async looks very well-rounded, congratulations on a fine job.
• esailija 13y ago
  async/await is just a generator function that yields promises. It is implementable even in node.js if you enable --generators flag.