as a commenter below me pointed out, there is node.js which got some attention recently. there was a rather long concurrency discussion on commonjs http://grou

as a commenter below me pointed out, there is node.js which got some attention recently. there was a rather long concurrency discussion on commonjs http://groups.google.com/group/commonjs/browse_thread/thread/fa20fc6a3649b3a/80317d66a45a2d00 http://groups.google.com/group/commonjs/browse_thread/thread... there was no consensus and the topic was delayed for later discussion - but it seemed the promises idea got most attention (my pov) http://wiki.commonjs.org/wiki/Promises http://wiki.commonjs.org/wiki/Promises