Drummer’s key innovation

Following up on yesterday’s news about Drummer, its key innovation is that you can write JavaScript code that’s much simpler because it does not need to use callbacks.
An example:

dns.getDomainName (dns.getDottedId (liveblog.co))

This works even though both DNS operations do I/O.
We are using JavaScript’s threading, we are not blocking the CPU.
A programmer in any other language will be scratching their head wondering what’s the big deal. I know. I’ve been saying that for years. If Python can do this, I don’t see why JavaScript shouldn’t.
Note: JavaScript as spec’d can’t do this. But we were able to make this work with a very simple pre-processor.

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