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[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 9 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I like async but dislike await. I spend entirely too much time on everything I build trying to maximize how much I can do in parallel because I find it tremendously satisfying.

[–] Vent@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

You probably already know this, or are talking about another language, but JavaScript is inherently single threaded, so unless you're running blocking I/O in parallel, you won't actually see any performance boost. Service workers get their own thread though.

[–] Luvon@beehaw.org 4 points 4 months ago

Await is usually there either because the performance doesn’t matter and the legibility is much higher with it, and/or because there are a series of asynchronous actions that depend on each other and await lets you write them as if they are sync because related to each other they are.

[–] bitfucker@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months ago

TaskGroup in Python is great