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		olegp on March 28, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: V8 developers start working on ES6 generators for ... In the mean time you can use fibers with Node. I've been using them for StartHQ (http://starthq.com) via Common Node (https://github.com/olegp/common-node) and to be honest I don't see how I could have made it maintainable with promises, let alone no flow control library at all.

_alex4nder on March 28, 2013 [–]

Agreed. Fibers are a great way to take simple synchronous-looking code and make it play well with the rest of node, without resorting to threads.

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