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why is it a poison for kids? some language supports the wait function, why limit event based javascript to the mind of a kid?
it is all about the interpreteralso with ES7 it can support async and await, is it really a poison?
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there are times we need for loop and have wait for seconds within it
kids do not know about multithread etc, why limit their mind and treat "wait/sleep" as abnormal
Unreality
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nodeMCUresets, because the ESP8266 has a watchdog, and the while loop prevents control returning to the underlying Espressif OS. But I'm pretty sure it would mess up USB and Bluetooth communications as well. Also, even a simple uart buffer - that uses HW uart & buffer - could overflow in a couple of seconds.Almost wrote that there could be a "main loop a'la arduino" thing in Espruino-Blockly, that emulates the expected behaviour. But the purist inside me thinks that kids mind should not contaminated be by seeing a blocking wait call on a microcontroller. Or actually in any code. Even if everybody seem to do that.
Did you know that god kills a kitten when you use blocking wait in any code? :O
Instead if the
while(true)block, you can use therun code every X secondsblock I guess.