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(and ditto for Delphi …) [image] Monads are part of C++, and are in your code For several reasons, I didn’t get a CppCon ticket this year, but since I live in the Denver metro area I did go on the Friday, which is free to attend. Herb’s closing keynote (Cpp2) was… …

Javascript … continuations (completion handlers ?) [image] These are asynchronous functions (like TTask, but returning a value) … that can be composed into further work to be performed, using that thread, without paying the cost of winding up a thread only to launch a new one to do the next step…

[image] Paul_McGee: Javascript … continuations (completion handlers ?) These are Promises - the fetch() call returns a promise. Promises have been around in Javascript for a long time, initially as a library but were added to the official Javascript around 2014. I tried to implement somethi…

I considered mentioning promises/futures … as opposed to our TFuture … but I wanted to keep it bite-sized, and am also no expert on javascript. I have been accumulating material over the year that could be a talk called “Vocabulary” … I have an idea that javascript has developed along a timeline w…

PPPS : I’d be very happy to hear much more about this stuff from anyone that felt like talking about it … it’s surely something Delphi can develop towards better in the future.

[image] Paul_McGee: it’s surely something Delphi can develop towards better in the future. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Do you know how many complex language features embarcadero have implemented in the last 10 years? The last ones were in 10.3 Rio . I have advocated for language enhancements for ma…

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