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The rise of async AI programming

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123 points mooreds | 1 comments | 11 Sep 25 12:20 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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lolive ◴[11 Sep 25 17:03 UTC] No.45213787[source]▶
I am teaching asynchronous programming in typescript to junior developpers. And i find really tricky to tell them that async and await do MAJOR magic behind their back to make their code readable as synchronous code.

And then, I need to detail very precisely what "Promise.all()" (and "return") really mean in the context of async/await. Which is something that (I feel) could have been abstracted away during the async/await syntax definition, and make the full magic much more natural.

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1. lolive ◴[11 Sep 25 17:04 UTC] No.45213808[source]▶
To elaborate a bit, telling them that you should not "aList.foreach(asyncMethod)", but you'd better do "Promise.all(aList.map(asyncMethod))" is NOT very easy for them.