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minus-squaremasterspace@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-29 months agoNo, 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.
minus-squareMantisWaffle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·9 months agoThreads are callbacks.
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.
Threads are callbacks.