Synchronous Means At The Same Time

Can somebody please fucking explain to me what dumbass developer defined the phrase “synchronous operations” to mean “one after the other” when the word “synchronous” literally means “happening at the same time” I feel like a fucking psycho writing “async” to make shit run in parallel when the word “asynchronous” literally means “not simultaneous or concurrent in time”

A dark-mode social media screenshot shows a user angrily complaining about programming terminology. The joke is that “synchronous” sounds like it should mean simultaneous, while synchronous code usually runs one operation after another; similarly, “async” is used to make tasks run in parallel even though “asynchronous” literally means not happening at the same time. It is shared as a humorous reaction to confusing or counterintuitive developer vocabulary. EN: A dark-mode social media screenshot shows a user angrily complaining about programming terminology. The joke is that “synchronous” sounds like it should mean simultaneous, while synchronous code usually runs one operation after another; similarly, “async” is used to make tasks run in parallel even though “asynchronous” literally means not happening at the same time. It is shared as a humorous reaction to confusing or counterintuitive developer vocabulary.

• @gentoomemes / 7900 2023-12-07