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7 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 6 comments · first 2011-02-26 · latest 2012-11-26

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  1. …(especially with a couple libraries that help the language be tolerable in certain use cases--e.g. https://github.com/coolaj86/futures ).
    comment by Jach · 2012-11-26 · in Redline Smalltalk V1.0
  2. …especially especially if you are managing outside data) so they come in handy. I like this library: https://github.com/coolaj86/futures Instead of sequence-members having to return promises themselves, though, they can just call the next()…
    comment by Jach · 2012-10-22 · in Missing the Point of Promises
  3. For any node.js devs out there, here is the promises library I've been using with great success: https://github.com/coolaj86/futures/tree/v2.0/future
    comment by dreadpirateryan · 2012-04-19 · in Write logic, not mechanics
  4. Futures (aka Deferreds aka Promises) are indeed cool. For a more general toolbox, check out https://github.com/coolaj86/futures What the linked article doesn't show is how you would create your own future objects, which in my point of view…
    comment by Jach · 2012-04-08 · in An introduction to jQuery Deferreds
  5. Personally I've gotten more use out of the Futures library, though both are great. https://github.com/coolaj86/futures It contains a form of 'waterfall' known as merely a sequence. I use a lot of sequences and promises, it makes me not go…
    comment by Jach · 2012-01-25 · in Node.js - A giant step backwards?
  6. …cases where it gets super ugly. I have a lot bookmarked on github, these are mostly libraries. https://github.com/coolaj86/futures https://github.com/substack/node-seq https://github.com/marcuswestin/fun https://github.com/creationix/step…
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    FuturesJS: A JS lib which (when used as directed) simplifies asynch programming
    story by pshapiro · 2011-02-26 · 0 comments