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HTML5DevConf Erin Swenson-Healey, Carbon Five: Hanging Up On Callbacks: Generators in ECMAScript 6

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Erin Swenson-Healey: Hanging Up On Callbacks - Generators in ECMAScript 6 Time: 10:40am - 11:30am | Room: Pacific E&J http://html5devconf.com #HTML5DevConf While the JavaScript event loop and asynchronous callbacks provide a powerful, easy-to-understand concurrency model - writing applications in continuation-passing style introduces problems of legibility, exception management, and composability. With the introduction of generators in the ECMAScript 6 Draft Specification, programmers can continue to leverage the power of the single-threaded event loop while writing expressive, simple code in a direct, top-down style. Generators: http://es6-gen.herokuapp.com/index.html ...more
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HTML5DevConf Erin Swenson-Healey, Carbon Five: Hanging Up On Callbacks: Generators in ECMAScript 6
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Erin Swenson-Healey: Hanging Up On Callbacks - Generators in ECMAScript 6 Time: 10:40am - 11:30am | Room: Pacific E&J http://html5devconf.com #HTML5DevConf While the JavaScript event loop and asynchronous callbacks provide a powerful, easy-to-understand concurrency model - writing applications in continuation-passing style introduces problems of legibility, exception management, and composability. With the introduction of generators in the ECMAScript 6 Draft Specification, programmers can continue to leverage the power of the single-threaded event loop while writing expressive, simple code in a direct, top-down style. Generators: http://es6-gen.herokuapp.com/index.html

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