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		jonkoops 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A better streams API is possible for JavaScript It avoids the overhead of Promises, so I can imagine that this would be quite useful if you know that blocking the thread is fine for a little while (e.g. in a worker).

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notnullorvoid 1 day ago [–]

I mean the APIs like `Stream.pullSync` you could do that with a regular (non-async) iterator/generator.

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