if you write your own control flow library, you will learn enough so
that you never need one.


On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Xavi Ramirez <[email protected]> wrote:
> Aync certainly has everything you'd ever want (and more), but I
> personally find the API a bit overwhelming and at times verbose. For
> example I dislike having to manually deconstruct an array to get the
> results of two callbacks executed in parallell.  Because of this, I
> tend to use Step: https://github.com/creationix/step/
>
> In addition to having a fairly minimal API, it has a solid test suite
> and it's been used on million+ visitor/month sites for over a year
> without issue.  The only real downside is that the original Step been
> more less abandoned.  Luckily, a number of fork have popped up:
>
> https://github.com/akidee/stepc
> https://github.com/xavi-/two-step
>
> None of them have been battle test quite as much as the original Step,
> but they use the same test suite and are actively being worked on.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Jake Verbaten <[email protected]> wrote:
>> A recent quora answer about flow control patterns might be helpful
>> ( http://www.quora.com/JavaScript/What-are-known-javascript-design-patterns-for-asynchronous-programming/ )
>>
>> It's a personal choice whether you use the primitives directly or abstract
>> them lightly. The main question is "what abstraction is too heavy". I
>> personally think half of async is too heavy, promises / deferreds / futures
>> are too heavy, fibers are too heavy, etc.
>>
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