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STOP DOING ASYNC
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I honestly don't know, why async got so popular. It seems like the entire reason for doing it was that some blokes were hellbent on using JS on a server and couldn't fathom that a second thread might be a good idea.
Ok, I'm a c# developer and I use async await quite extensively. Is it different in JS? Or am I missing something?
Nah, they're very similar, really. You generally kick IO heavy stuff you don't need immediately off to async await.
There are a few more applications of it in C# since you don't have the "single thread" to work with like in JS. And the actual implementation under the hood is different, sure. But conceptually they're similar. Pretty sure JS was heavily influenced by C#'s implementation and syntax.