Boom, Promises/A+ Was Born

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A rant plus a gist become a concrete spec and a test suite that proves an idea works: Promises/A+ formalizes how then must behave, spawns over 30 implementations across languages, and influences DOM futures and ES7 discussions. Examples show promises with ES6 generators acting as shallow coroutines and promises-as-proxies across iframe worker or websocket boundaries. The project lives on GitHub as an organization, uses an interoperable core (the then contract), and the tests force real compatibility rather than vague examples.

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2. 3:10The Async Programming Revolution
3. 5:02Continuation Passing Style
4. 10:10Generators

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