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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
A couple of weeks ago I was asked by some junior folks why they should consider platform work – implicit in their question, the care and feeding of old, stable platforms – and this sort of impact is one if the things I cited.
We designed `fetch()` (and Promises, and the second version of `async`/`await`) as part of the Service Worker design. We couldn't block the thread, so programming it needed an upgrade, but knew it would reverberate. And it has. I'm so glad.