Raynos, I have a feeling that you are comparing apples and oranges. Streams 
are awesome, Promises are awesome but it's not the same, and not every use 
case can be addressed on equal level by both of them.

>From my experience there can be promises that are also a streams, but among 
them are also promises that fulfill before stream ends. There can also be 
promises that are not streams, of course you may represent them as stream 
but if they bring no value and just emit 'end', it doesn't fit well stream 
concept, does it?

Same way you can just use callbacks instead of promises, but the point is 
that promises gives you better abstraction, so it's easier to construct 
complicated flow with it and maintain it. See this: 
https://github.com/medikoo/deferred#promises-approach How would you write 
it with streams instead? Would it be more friendly than callbacks 
version: https://github.com/medikoo/deferred#plain-nodejs ?

On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 6:40:02 AM UTC+2, Raynos wrote:
>
> https://github.com/Raynos/promise-stream
>
> If you want to turn a stream into a promise you can.
>
> This mainly illustrates how streams and promises are similar for those 
> that like promises.
>
> It also shows a comparison between how you flow async code through 
> promises and streams
>
>

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