I don't think that's the point Dan, some of us here just find the Node "Async experience" sometimes exhausting, using your analogy, "node swimming" is swimming with a somewhat advanced tech akin to the breaststroke, several people would like to make the learning curve shorter or eliminate it completely by offering water-wings, the doggie- paddle and other easier methods.
I have read so many tutorials, blogs, gone through examples for flow control libraries. I think I understand the callback methodology of Node now, but I am pleased that these libraries exist and that there are people concerned about the learning curve. On Apr 17, 8:51 am, "Dan North" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > athttp://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
