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pcattori | 3 years ago | on: Go-like channels in 10 lines of JavaScript

Yep, totally could do that. But I like I mentioned here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34659597) I wanted to keep the interfaces for `compileBrowser` and `compilerServer` since my mental model for it is that those two are "siblings".

pcattori | 3 years ago | on: Go-like channels in 10 lines of JavaScript

The manifest is an artifact produced by the browser compilation, but it can be shared _before_ the browser compilation writes its results to disk.

I _could_ refactor to have "browser compilation phase 1", then assets manifest, and then "browser compilation phase 2", but that's not how I model it in my head. Plus it would mean a diverging interface for `compileBrowser` and `compileServer` which doesn't fit my mental model either.

So prefer to use channels instead.

pcattori | 3 years ago | on: Go-like channels in 10 lines of JavaScript

The main trick on display here is that you can store a reference to the `resolve` method of a promise that normally would have to be called within the promise definition itself.

Of course, you don't need a channel abstraction to do that. To me, channels are the most intuitive and self-contained way to solve the problem, so I wanted to use that model of concurrency in JS.

pcattori | 3 years ago | on: Go-like channels in 10 lines of JavaScript

Its a Typescript-ism for asserting that the value is not `undefined`. So you're telling the typechecker to trust you on this one

pcattori | 3 years ago | on: Go-like channels in 10 lines of JavaScript

That's correct. The last three paragraphs of the article cover this and include links to libraries that have "full" channel implementations.

pcattori | 9 years ago | on: Problems I Have with Python

The point about "Inadequate data modelling facilities" is why I wrote Maps: https://github.com/pcattori/maps . Specifically, the "Named Maps" variants provide the same interface as `namedtuple` but for different levels of immutability/mutability.

Feedback/suggestions welcome!