On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 2:24 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote:
> Synchronous APIs are easier to use since it's how things have been done > since decades ago, > No, they're easier to use because they fit the model of linear human thought more naturally. The idea that asynchronous APIs are just as good and easy as synchronous APIs, and that people only disagree because of lack of experience with asynchronous APIs, is mistaken. APIs must be designed around how programmer's minds actually work, not how you'd like them to work. but the required POSIX-like APIs would be better developed as external > libraries on top of the asynchronous ones. > > You can't build synchronous APIs on top of asynchronous APIs without the mechanism this thread is specifically about. -- Glenn Maynard
