ANAndi·Jul 26, 2010
Use Step, man: http://github.com/creationix/step
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creationix / step
step
An async control-flow library that makes stepping through logic easy.
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What it is
An async control-flow library that makes stepping through logic easy.
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- caolan/async · linked in 3 of the same discussions
- creationix/do · linked in 2 of the same discussions
- substack/node-seq · linked in 2 of the same discussions
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Observed mentions: 2010-04-29 14:58:25 UTC to 2015-02-19 12:50:13 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2010 | 2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2011 | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2012 | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesre: promises/chaining
Check out:
http://github.com/rsms/node-promise
http://github.com/creationix/step
http://github.com/creationix/do
Did the value proposition of node fall apart?
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re: multi-proc support
From www.nodejs.org architecture design statement:
"But what about multiple-processor concurrency? Threads are necessary to scale programs to multi-core computers. Processes are necessary to scale to multi-core computers, not memory-sharing threads. The fundamentals of scalable systems are fast networking and non-blocking design—the rest is message passing. In future versions, Node will be able to fork new processes (using the Web Workers API ), but this is something that fits well into the current design."
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