On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 4:20 AM, Nuno Job <[email protected]> wrote:

>   It'll be interesting to see the pressure build to get fibers/coroutines
>> in core if this gains in
>> popularity (likely if you look at the HN score).
>
>
> Knowing some of the core team I don't really think this will happen. In
> the unlikely event of a water landing, it wouldn't be because of pressure
> of some framework or HN. :)
>

I think it's safe to say it won't ever, regardless of pressure. Especially
since es6 has an equivalently expressive feature -- generators (shallow
continuations) w/o the well-documented problem of fibers (deep
continuations). (And no, this is not to flame fibers. I think they're
really interesting and useful as a stop gap for people that like that style
until they have generators.)

I do wonder though -- does anyone know if they're faking fibers on the
client side? The demo shows sync interaction with the db -- are they using
sync xhr? Or is it some crazy fancy rewriting, or some other exotic
technique? They just did some hand-waving about latency compensation and I
couldn't find anything in the docs.

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