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		thdxr on Oct 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Why is Node.js hated so much? Elixir and Erlang aren't async everything. Everything runs synchronously by default, you need to use separate primitives to turn it async

true_religion on Oct 3, 2021 [–]

By the way you approach it, JavaScript isn’t async everything because you need to deliberately define a promise or async function…

However the OP and I, are talking about async everything as a programming methodology and not as a fundamental part of the base system.

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