June 30, 2011
5:02 p.m.
On 30 Jun 2011, at 17:53, Janko Mivšek wrote:
Because I'm just working on asynchronous no-blocking node.js like control flow in Aida, I can say that this is really natural to Smalltalk with its closures, much more than so called callbacks in JavaScript. In Smalltalk it is more readable and you hardly notice the difference to the normal Smalltalk code, while in JavaScript those callbacks are a bit hard to grasp and understand. From non seasoned programmer perspective, that is.
Janko, that sounds promising, I would really love to learn more about your efforts. How do you do async IO without the select() system call ? As far as I know, that is not available as a VM primitive. Sven