>>27Way to miss the point. The blog posted by
>>26-san contains a very striking line:
"I object to doing things computers can do" - and explicitly handling I/O responses certainly falls into the category of Things a Computer Should Do.
Arguing that everything is just callbacks under the hood actually suggests that this line, every single one of its implications and my entire point is correct. Doing callbacks manually when a clearer form of code can be translated to equally fast or even faster callbacks by the machine is comparable to writing everything with gotos in order to optimize loops and ifs because you think compilers produce slow code. Sure, they are gotos under the hood, but that doesn't mean we should use goto to emulate
while.
This isn't progress, it's an incredible regression disguised as progress.