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[โ€“] masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] MantisWaffle@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

Threads are callbacks.