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a-dub on Sept 7, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Asynchronous IO: the next billion-dollar mistake?

you should be able to reason synchronously and a good computer system would handle the rest.

AndrewDucker on Sept 7, 2024 [–]

You cannot reason synchronously about things that are asynchronous. Unless you want to just block on IO. Which is clearly not great as a user experience or very efficient.

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