The billion dollar mistake refers to pointers being nullable. Old school type systems not supporting the equivalent of Maybe<T>, basically. It's not specific to columns in sql.
Async/Await is a relatively recent development and the author is free to argue it's bad paradigm that makes simple things way harder than they need to. It wouldn't be the first time our industry jumped on a very silly bandwagon! Calling something "the worst" is fine. It's not a literal claim and it doesn't deserve your scorn.
Async/Await is a relatively recent development and the author is free to argue it's bad paradigm that makes simple things way harder than they need to. It wouldn't be the first time our industry jumped on a very silly bandwagon! Calling something "the worst" is fine. It's not a literal claim and it doesn't deserve your scorn.