Asynchrony on the web
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The document discusses the concept of asynchrony in web development, highlighting the differences between synchronous and asynchronous execution. It emphasizes the importance of non-blocking event loops for web performance and user experience. The author shares personal insights on programming, particularly with JavaScript, and provides a brief agenda for a coding session.
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Asynchrony on the web
- 3. Asynchrony of the web Wekoslav Stefanovski
- 4. Head of Development in Sourcico Macedonia Coding professionally since last century I love programming, I love programmers Long and fruitful love / hate relationship with JavaScript Prodigiously lazy, so very few slides >whoami
- 5. What is asynchrony? Why is the web asynchronous? Making a simple timer Making a better timer Agenda
- 6. Doing a single thing Not starting anything else before the current thing is completely done Code execution is line-by-line Possible to reason about Slow as molasses, and unresponsive as much What is synchrony?
- 7. Distributed by definition Single threaded execution as a feature Never ever blocking event loop Hard to reason about Unwieldy to program with Why is the web asynchronous?