How I want to write Node: Stream all the things

Post by tel » Sat, Feb 15, 2014, 2:11 PM UTC

aegiso wrote: post #97

codygman wrote: post #82

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Can you qualify "Haskell doesn't have anything close to the plug-and-playability of npm modules" because I don't quite get what you mean? Maybe it is because I can't think of anything plug-and-play in node that isn't plug-and-play in Haskell.

Sure. I want a git server with push notifications. Two lines with the pushover module in node. I would be pleasantly surprised if this existed at all in the Haskell community. Even more so with two lines of my own code.

Post by tel » Sat, Feb 15, 2014, 2:18 PM UTC

lukasm wrote: post #84

rubiquity wrote: post #81

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When did sane and static typing become synonymous?

sane has nothing to do with static typing. Python is a language which is dynamic and has a sane semantics. e.g. in JS {} + {} is NaN and many other examples.

Post by jhrobert » Sat, Feb 15, 2014, 3:14 PM UTC

nailer wrote: post #31

glenjamin wrote: post #6

If you're doing Node.js, Caolan's async library is pretty much part of the standard toolkit. I know Caolan's been thinking about this and reworking it for a while, so I'll be interested to see whether it manages to see significant takeup.

From Great British Node Conf, maybe two months ago: a speaker talking about promises asked what people use for flow control: - promises: about 20% of the room. - async: about 80% of the room For me async.waterfall([list of functions]) is little nicer than 10 chained .thens(). And people advocating promises still keep saying it keeps things flat. No it doesn't, we're already flat because we're all using async. Stop pr…

  Boxon.cast( fs.readfile, 'myfile' )
  .then( function( content ){ console.log( content ) })
  .catch( function( err ){ console.log( "Error", err ) });

Post by jhrobert » Sat, Feb 15, 2014, 3:27 PM UTC

lightblade wrote: post #53

nailer wrote: post #43

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- Why BlueBird? What's wrong with Q? - Isn't data a scope down? - https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/blob/master/API.md is API based, not task based. async is API based too, but the API has names like 'waterfall' and 'parallel'. I can click them because I know what they mean. Promises just makes me feel like I'm reading about and endless series of abstractions.

Native Promises already landed Chrome 32 and Q still does not support native promises. Bluebird delegate to native if supported. Promises can be used as flow control, but more importantly, it's an object that encapsulates asynchronous mechanics. I like to see how async can launch an asynchronous operation, then allow listeners to be attached later to capture the result. Now, you may say that if you want to attach lis…

  var outcome = Boxon();
  fs.readFile( "test.txt", outcome );
  // Attach listener later:
  outcome( function( err, content ){ ... } );

Post by rubiquity » Sat, Feb 15, 2014, 6:05 PM UTC

lukasm wrote: post #84

rubiquity wrote: post #81

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When did sane and static typing become synonymous?

sane has nothing to do with static typing. Python is a language which is dynamic and has a sane semantics. e.g. in JS {} + {} is NaN and many other examples.