Thread 105655980

What's the point of async/await?

Concurrency.

the function immediately returns a Promise object so you can do other stuff while it waits on other Promise objects to resolve

>>105655980 (OP)
Doing stuff and not blocking the main thread.

>>105655991
>>105656028
But does the await keyword not block the thread?

>>105655980 (OP)
> await delay

>>105656050
JS only has a single thread and the runtime manages the job queue switching between tasks in an non-deterministic manner

>>105656071
Yeah I pulled it straight from my scip so it's gotta go ok right?

>>105656123
I mean, it will, the whole point of await though is you can start some processing somewhere else and then come back and get it later, not to immediately get the result. I guess if there was a GUI running in the background it wouldnt block during the delay 1s.

>>105655991
javascript is single threaded

>>105655980 (OP)
monads = bad
algebraic effects = good

>>105655980 (OP)
Cope for not using a real programming language instead of babbys first webshit

>Write entire program as async
>Await every function call
>The entire program is now snychronous
Cope and seethe

>>105656458
i write code like this

>>105656050
Nope.