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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, because async is fundamentally a paradigm for how to express asynchronous programming, i.e. situations where you need to wait for something else to happen, threading is not an alternative to that, callbacks are.

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[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Threads are callbacks.

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