Ev Williams Blames Node.js Promises

Ev Williams Blames Reliance On Promises in Node.js Backend for Heavy Job Cuts At Medium by Sarah Frier 5 January 2017, 08:17 GMT+11 ‘Shifting resources’ to rework Promise-based code to simpler, more efficient callbacks Promises model is ‘broken,’ too difficult to debug and performance hit too costly

A Bloomberg Technology-style article screenshot shows Ev Williams speaking with an interviewer. The headline jokingly reframes technical complaints about Node.js Promises as the reason for heavy job cuts at Medium, parodying corporate layoff reporting and developer frustration with callback-based code. It is sent as a reaction to difficult-to-debug asynchronous programming or absurd tech-industry explanations.

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