Javascript Promise (a review)
Promises are not neutral enough
Even though they fulfill their purpose, JavaScript Promises are an opinionated primitive that introduce a lot of weirdness. This weirdness ends up spreading to other corners of the JavaScript language and ecosystem. Basically Promises are not neutral enough because they introduce 4 opinions:
- Eager, not lazy
- No cancellation
- Never synchronous
- then() is a mix of map() and flatMap()
Written on February 15, 2018, Last update on June 10, 2020
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