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STOP DOING ASYNC
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this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2024
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Async got popular when the choices for clientside code in the browser were "Javascript" or "go fuck yourself." It's an utterly miserable way to avoid idiotic naive while() stalling. But it was the only way.