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Re: [mediacapture-region] What makes CropTarget special to require an asynchronous creation? (#17)

From: Yoav Weiss via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 07:43:06 +0000
To: public-webrtc-logs@w3.org
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> Asynchronous API's come at a cost to web developers, as they turn JavaScript into a pre-emptive language.

How so?

> I recommend [Why coroutines won’t work on the web](http://calculist.org/blog/2011/12/14/why-coroutines-wont-work-on-the-web/) as required reading here.

Reading through this, I'm failing to understand the relevance. Are you suggesting that Promises are the equivalent of co-routines?



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