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Don't worry. Just wait until you start doing async stuff, especially with React.

You'll be dreaming of good old times of linear stacktraces.

Windows 95 introduces threads as a revolution for developer productivity, and you had no longer write async Windows event loops which were hard to debug. Linear stack traces are one of the main selling point, among others.

Node 16 was supposed to make this situation much better but you sure could have fooled me. Is there less salt in my wounds? Sure.

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