ya know the cool thing about open source? if you want a feature - you
can write it yourself! the core team has said push('again').join(' and
') that this is not a feature they will add which probably means it
probably won't be done.

but, hey, this has become a reddit post - stupidest comment generates
the most response. congrats!

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 10:07, Bradley Meck <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would take a look at SilkJS.
>
>
> On Sunday, April 1, 2012 9:20:01 PM UTC-5, Olivier Lalonde 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?
>
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