Message from JavaScript discussions
October 2018
— Async event loop is very basic and barbaric, it is a very specific implementation of the reactor pattern
It is only one tiny barely significant (although useful) way to write JS software, that is just integrated right into it for some reason
— Ahhaha, well, I guess we can already agree that a lot of that design in JS was questionable from the beginning, so it's not hard to understand why that is... it only existed in Netscape web browser, for a very very specific purpose
— You could say, JS is extremely opinionated, due to that event loop wrapping it
— You start only one thing this way. better pass some array of functions.. or even better some array that will have stop markers. like [A B C stop D E stop F G]
— I mean, this is not uncommon though? Plenty of languages have the same stuff, C#, Python, etc?
— This is the current model in nodejs for blocking i/o and so
— You dont need it
— An observable is perfect as a channel
— The thing is, this are patterns to abstract a low level implementation
— Promise or observable in nodejs are hidding the model of event loop
— One main thread throwing tasks to a thread pool