Yes, definitely an anti-pattern. This post was targeted at non-Erlang developers, specifically JavaScript devs. JS devs use promises extensively and I was trying to show how a language with a good primitives can easily implement other asynchronous design patterns.
``We don’t ever use promises in Erlang.’’ Yes, this is true (for me). Promises are a pattern that I would call an anti-pattern in Erlang.
Yes, definitely an anti-pattern. This post was targeted at non-Erlang developers, specifically JavaScript devs. JS devs use promises extensively and I was trying to show how a language with a good primitives can easily implement other asynchronous design patterns.