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why people switched to Go from JavaScript
Promises in Javascript trade one problem (callback nesting) for a worse one (silent failures).
With callbacks you always knew when something broke. With swallowed errors, you have to add debug statements
until you've tracked down where the error got swallowed.
10 seconds vs. 10 minutes
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