Philip Roberts

Programming Talks by Philip Roberts

What the heck is the event loop anyway?

Philip Roberts
27 minutes
What the heck is the event loop anyway?JavaScript programmers like to use words like, “event-loop”, “non-blocking”, “callback”, “asynchronous”, “single-threaded” and “concurrency”. We say things like “don’t block the event loop”, “make sure your code runs at 60 frames-per-second”, “well of course, it won’t work, that function is an asynchronous callback!” If you’re anything like me, you nod and agree, ...