Message from JavaScript discussions
April 2017
— Ie a game loop, facebook, and other non-concurrent systems where state is handled in bursts of mutation/batched operations
Promises can be used there quite a bit and are a cornerstone of all that is good about functional programming
— At least in js, haha
— I hesitate to call anything in js a "cornerstone of good X" in general, if you catch my drift :p
— All a promise is, is a continuation monad
— And THAT is a cornerstone of good functional programming itself, not quite any specific implementation of it
— Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation-passing_style
— Floofies I'm working on the stuff I started yesterday
— I recoded it
— I'm getting funny with that
— Mastering promises can change allll your code :D
— What is that