Subj : Re: hey nu; question about Enigma.5
To   : NuSkooler
From : Alpha
Date : Sat Jan 30 2021 14:10:20

 > I know the concept of async scares some people that don't have much
 > experience in it. I'll always say: Once you go async you never go back
 > (you'll want this concept for everything...). But with that said, you
 > can also still avoid it with enigma if you want to just create a mod
 > as a "door". By launching a separate process from enigma you don't
 > need to worry about anything being async and can really do whatever
 > you want.

Concurrency was one of the things that drew me to Go (golang). One of its
principles was making concurrency part of the programming language,
rather than a module that sits on top of it or binding to a callback. I've
started messing around with Goroutines in a crappy little door program
I'm writing and it's pretty cool. A countdown timer that triggers
its own events, writes to stdout, even when a user is typing an
input. Everyone gets a channel!

I'm also a pretty bad progrgrammer, but hoping to get better.

When I was writing React code, I avoided async for so long because it
just seemed so... difficult. Turns out, it's a lot more straightforward
than callback hell. Just takes a bit to wrap your head around.

Enigma's structure and the ability to mod just about
anything/anywhere makes it pretty damn powerful IMHO.

Best,


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