Some come to async from callbacks and others from (green)threads.
replyIf you come from callbacks it is (almost) purely an upgrade, from threads is it more mixed.
It is a tool. Some tools make you more productive after you have learned how to use them.
replyI find it interesting how in software, I repeatedly hear people saying "I should not have to learn, it should all be intuitive". In every other field, it is a given that experts are experts because they learned first.
> I find it interesting how in software, I repeatedly hear people saying "I should not have to learn, it should all be intuitive". In every other field, it is a given that experts are experts because they learned first.
replyOther fields don't have the same ability to produce unlimited incidental complexity, and therefore not the same need to rein it in. But I don't think there's any field which (as a whole) doesn't value simplicity.
Except you're hearing it from someone who doesn't have a problem handling state machines and epoll and manual thread management.
replyFrankly, async being non-intuitive does not imply that manual concurrency handling is less so; both are a PITA to do correctly.
replyIt is. A lot.
replyBut concurrency is hard and there's so much you syntax can do about it.
It IS intuitive.
replyAfter you’ve learned the paradigm and bedded it down with practice.