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		dboreham on March 25, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why choose async/await over threads? Async wasn't invented after threads. It was primarily popularized in a system that has been designed such that it couldn't use threads (the web browser). Everything else is post-justifcation for why it's better. It isn't better.

OtomotO on March 25, 2024 [–]

Async/Await as a syntax thing wasn't, but Async/Await as "don't just blindly use Threads for scaling to a myriad of incoming HTTP requests" was.

I remember the Apache webserver story and that one has little to nothing to do with Webbrowsers or JavaScript ;)

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