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1 Feb 2015
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Bob Nystrom — holds since 2015-02-01 — tap for who they are
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Charity Majors — holds since 2026-08-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Function colouring is the real cost of async/await, and green threads like Go's avoid it — but for an existing runtime such as JavaScript or C#, async/await was still the right solution. — tap to centre the map on it Function colouring is the real cost of async/await, and green threads like Go's avoid it — but for an existing runtime such as JavaScript or C#, async/await was still the right solution. Last stated 5 months ago
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David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2026-10-04 — tap for who they are
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Charity Majors — holds since 2026-08-12 — tap for who they are
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Bob Nystrom — holds since 2015-02-01 — tap for who they are
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Bob Nystrom — holds since 2015-02-01 — tap for who they are
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Splitting functions into synchronous and asynchronous kinds forces that distinction into every piece of code a programmer afterwards writes.
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You cannot really understand the code you write unless you are also the one operating it.
Holds
Function colouring is the real cost of async/await, and green threads like Go's avoid it — but for an existing runtime such as JavaScript or C#, async/await was still the right solution.
Holds
The economic trade-off between language verbosity and programmer cost has changed.
Holds
You can now generate ten thousand variants of a function faster than you could write it once, and that economics pushes software towards replacement rather than repair.
Holds
Each programming language embodies a distinct mental model for thinking about computation and writing programs.
Holds
Asynchrony should be a property of how a program is run, not a colour baked into the type of every function in the standard library.
Holds
Async/await makes asynchronous code easier to write without healing the split it created, and the divide reappears as soon as you write a higher-order function.
Holds
Rust code is very pretty to look at, though the author suspects few others share this view.
Holds
A business is more likely to fail from taking on too much complexity than from lacking resources.
Holds
A business succeeds through a small number of highly effective distribution channels, not many mediocre ones.
Holds
A candidate negotiating an offer should make every ask fit one line of logic.
Holds
A big part of taste is delivering high levels of craft in an accessible way so that as many people as possible can experience it.
Holds
A company name can have different appeal to corporate buyers versus their customers.
Holds
A first draft should not be graded good or bad; it is only the material that taste then gets to act on.
Holds
A feeling of responsibility is probably the greatest inhibitor of creativity; great ideas came from people not paid to have them
Last stated c. 1959
Holds
A free-wheeling, anarchic neural organization may be the secret of human creativity, at the price of susceptibility to mental illness
Holds
A person who works from a recipe, even an innovative one, starts from something that already exists.
Holds