As a relatively recent adopter of node.js and even JavaScript I find the tendency to offer streamline etc. to newcomers a bit like offering a boat to someone who has just joined a swimming club and is learning to swim.
- "I'm finding swimming tricky" - "Use a boat!" - "I think I want to understand swimming" - "Use a kayak! It's quicker. It's like it swims for you!" - "Nearly everyone else here is swimming. It can't be that hard. I just need help with wrapping my head around it." - "Try these water-wings called async while you get used to the water." - "Oh thanks, that looks useful." - "Use a kayak!" - "Look, I'm not afraid of getting wet or anything and I can doggy-paddle but it's exhausting. I want to learn good swimming technique. Can you point me to some useful resources?" - "La la la use a boat!" - *sigh* (leaves) So, since I'm also likely to end up coaching this stuff because that's what I do, and I'm a fan of good resources, I'm genuinely interested in the following: Can anyone recommend a good resource for an experienced programmer who is new to async, callback- and event-based, single event loop programming in JavaScript and node.js? And no I don't want a boat or anything else that masks the "async experience". Honestly, I'll be ok. Thanks, Dan -----Original Message----- From: Jorge <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:39:15 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [nodejs] Re: How to avoid callback hell? On Apr 16, 2012, at 3:08 PM, Nuno Job wrote: > <snip> > > Nuno Gratuitous, and unnecessarily rude: -1024 -- Jorge. -- 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
