continuation

Delimited Continuations for JavasScript (by thefrontside)

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continuation reviews and mentions

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  • Bun, JavaScript, and TCO
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Dec 2023
    While working on effection (https://github.com/thefrontside/effection) we spent a bunch of time ensuring that our delimited continuations could handle deep recursive call stacks in Deno.

    PR: https://github.com/thefrontside/continuation/pull/11

    TCO would have definitely simplified this issue.

    What’s worse is hitting maximum memory callstack exception is very tricky to catch and is not reliable across runtimes. So when a user hits it it can be tricky to track down.

  • Internals of Async / Await in JavaScript
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Sep 2023
    - https://github.com/thefrontside/continuation

    - https://github.com/thefrontside/effection/tree/v3

    - https://github.com/neurosnap/starfx

    The last one intends to replace redux-saga using DCs.

    Here’s a presentation I gave recently talking about DCs in typescript: https://youtu.be/uRbqLGj_6mI?si=XI0JNMKMoO2VHMvM

  • Philosophy of Coroutines
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Sep 2023
    These libraries rely on deliminited continuations:

    https://github.com/thefrontside/continuation

    Because of this tiny implementation we are able to express any async flow construct with less code than relying on something like async/await or callbacks.

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    workos.com | 28 Apr 2024
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