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Why is everyone saying callbacks are naturally messy? When I first started node.js I realised I had a pyramid in my screen (6 callbacks in one another). I then

by guiomie 13y ago

Why is everyone saying callbacks are naturally messy? When I first started node.js I realised I had a pyramid in my screen (6 callbacks in one another). I then googled "callback hell", and found some nice techniques not requiring promises or any other fancy library to write my code nicely.

jbeja 13y ago
Could you shared the links?
- guiomie 13y ago
  http://callbackhell.com/ http://callbackhell.com/
  - jbeja 13y ago
    Thank you. I actually already apply all this practices on my code, maybe that why i never understood this callback hell that people keep talking about, maybe haven't done big js projects yet to experience it.
jerf 13y ago
The messiness isn't in the code; the messiness is in the execution model itself. However nice you may think your code is now, compared to the "pyramid", it's nothing on how nice it is when you write it in a language that has "asynchronousness" at its core, like Go.