Comment by PunchyHamster
10 days ago
In some languages, yes, in others (js/python) async is just workaround about not having proper threading.
10 days ago
In some languages, yes, in others (js/python) async is just workaround about not having proper threading.
Python used multiple threads to handle I/O long before async/await was a glimmer in anyone's mind (despite the GIL). nodejs is one of the very few languages I can think of that was born single-threaded and used an asynchronous runtime from the get-go