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I think writing an effect library yourself is a tough ask, but some of them have gotten really, really good. And they get you things that are simply not possible with promise. Chec…

Is it safe to just "stop calling next() on a generator?" like the post suggest? To me that sounds like dropping the task on the floor. Specifically, this will not invoke any finall…

JavaScript generators are unmined gold! We've done a lot of usage of JavaScript generators as delimited continuations; using them to implement the classic shift/reset operations in…

> yes but what do I say to my colleagues when they realize they need to learn generators (it's a non-trivial hurdle for many people) Just tell them that they already know them. `yi…

JavaScript’s async/await constructs have a critical lack of power which makes them unsuitable to implement structured concurrency.

For those interested in exploring Structured Concurrency in JavaScript, there is https://frontside.com/effection

I think the simplest expression of the idea of structured concurrency that I've come across is this: The scope of any concurrent process is the same as the lexical scope of the fun…

> I'm not sure I buy the premise for the library's existence, at least with how the author describes it. Just do a google search for "structured concurrency". These ideas did not c…