“As a human being, you’re multithreaded. You can type with multiple fingers, you can drive and hold a conversation at the same time. The only blocking function we have to deal with is sneezing, where all current activity must be suspended for the duration of the sneeze. That’s pretty annoying, especially when you’re driving and trying to hold a conversation. You don’t want to write code that’s sneezy.”
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“Now we can make HTTP requests without manually typing XMLHttpRequest, which is great, because the less I have to see the infuriating camel-casing of XMLHttpRequest, the happier my life will be.”
Link: JavaScript Promises: an Introduction | Web Fundamentals | Google Developers
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