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Tasks, microtasks, queues and schedules (2015) (jakearchibald.com)
26 points by nvahalik on June 28, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



I don't get the point why to predict the execution order in some asynchronous code?


I don't think it's so much about "predicting execution" as exposing the underlying mechanisms that browsers supply for handling asynchronous tasks. The "order" essentially is a priority system, is it not?




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