Because you want to use JavaScript in the browser.
/satire off
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huntrss
joined 2 years ago
Not so much relevant for production use cases but from an educational point of view: whorl is pretty great. One file that explains async runtime basics from top to bottom. The cleverness of doing this in one source code file is remarkable.
They used to cause anxiety in the past as well. But there was a window where - at least I - didn't fear them. Main reason why I still think they are necessary are security patches. But I do fear updates due to their tendency in breaking things.