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— It is "deferred execution"

— Look at every other language capable of automatic concurrent execution, like I have, and I think you would change your mind because they have not treated the concept as over-engineering, instead treating it as an essential part of the execution flow

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  THREAD = function(chain){
    var index, func;
    index = 0;
    func = function(){
      window.requestAnimationFrame(function(){
        switch (chain[index]()) {
        case false:
          func();
          break;
        case true:
        case undefined:
          if (chain[++index]) {
            func();
          }
        }
        return;
      });
    };
    func();
  };

you may put there setTimeout(), jobs done, it will simulate your spawn

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— There are many things that simulate it in the wild

— You would have to put a setTimeout at every expression

— But you can't take a thousand-line function with possibly hundreds of function calls and expect this to not lead to undue technical debt

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— Why do i need that🤤

— HZ is not void of technical debt, in fact the point is to shift the technical debt from the developer to the compiler/dispatcher

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— To be able to pause / interrupt at any point in the function using the event loop

— They are complex because the complexity needed somewhere to go, out of the developer's list of concerns

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— I only need to control *big* parts, under CPU it will go as fast as light.. there is no reason to stop/check at each expression, it will slow-down the whole process

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