We're definitely not going to change node in the way you suggest. Async is the default by design. Mark Hahn expressed the reasons quite well, so I won't reiterate them.
Sync methods look different because they *are* different. Automatically switching from async to sync would be a violation of Node's core principles, and a disaster. "Node is not pretending it is blocking when it is not." http://www.mikealrogers.com/posts/the-way-of-node.html On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 19:20, Olivier Lalonde <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm sorry if this has been discussed before, but I couldn't find anything. > This a modest proposal to introduce sync APIs in Node.js > > A lot of people would like to use Javascript for their web backend, but > don't want to program in an async style (I believe those reasons have > already been discussed at length). > > As it stands right now, it is practically impossible to program in Node.js > in a sync style, since most core modules and native extensions only provide > an async interface. > > I believe there would be an easy way to change the status quo without > impacting developers who chose to adhere to a strict async style. The > solution I propose is simply a pattern for writing I/O APIs: every I/O call > should be async unless no call back is supplied, in which case the I/O call > should be sync and use return / throw statements instead of calling a > callback. > > There is probably a flaw in my reasoning since I'm probably not the first > one to come up with this pattern. That being said, I think it would be an > elegant way to make both async/sync fans happy while keeping all the backend > JS community focused on one project rather than fragmenting the community in > multiple CommonJS server implementations. > > Thoughts? > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
