Programmer Humor

32332 readers

38 users here now

Post funny things about programming here! (Or just rant about your favourite programming language.)

Rules:

Posts must be relevant to programming, programmers, or computer science.
No NSFW content.
Jokes must be in good taste. No hate speech, bigotry, etc.

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml

cat_programmer@lemmy.ml

674

STOP DOING ASYNC (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by Maven@lemmy.world to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

63 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

No, because async is fundamentally a paradigm for how to express asynchronous programming, i.e. situations where you need to wait for something else to happen, threading is not an alternative to that, callbacks are.

[–] MantisWaffle@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

Threads are callbacks.