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		munificent on July 6, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to think about async/await in Rust > This thread is about async/await, which was added to JavaScript in 2017. The article is about async/await, but the comments I'm replying to seem to be about asynchronous programming in general. JS was doing async for many years before async/await was added.

atombender on July 6, 2023 [–]

Nobody was doing async JS before Node, which came long after async I/O was an established paradigm.

munificent on July 6, 2023 | [–]

XMLHttpRequest shipped in 1999. AJAX was coined in 2005. The "A" in "AJAX" is for "asynchronous".

atombender on July 7, 2023 | | [–]

XMLHttpRequest may be async, but it's not an asynchronous programming model.

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