vale ruin
So JS has promises, Elixir Tasks. Other languages have futures. I consider all of them "a value coming later" and that they can be represented as a monad.
Essentially I think they are all the same thing. Is that the case?
Context is I am interested in making a task library that works on erlang and JS and eventually being able to share references to tasks between client and server.
foggy halo
The difference I’ve seen between tasks and promises is that promises self-resolve even when not used while futures need to be run and so will do nothing if dropped
Task is think is more vague a word
vale ruin
Interesting. I wonder if self-resolve or not makes any difference on them fulfilling the monad laws.
I don't think it should
foggy halo
Nah it doesn’t