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  2. Futures and promises - Wikipedia

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    [3] The terms future, promise, delay, and deferred are often used interchangeably, although some differences in usage between future and promise are treated below. Specifically, when usage is distinguished, a future is a read-only placeholder view of a variable, while a promise is a writable, single assignment container which sets the value of ...

  3. JavaScript - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 February 2025. High-level programming language Not to be confused with Java (programming language), Javanese script, or ECMAScript. JavaScript Screenshot of JavaScript source code Paradigm Multi-paradigm: event-driven, functional, imperative, procedural, object-oriented Designed by Brendan Eich of ...

  4. Promise theory - Wikipedia

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    Promise theory is grounded in graph theory and set theory. [1] The goal of promise theory is to reveal the behavior of a whole by taking the viewpoint of the parts rather than the whole. In other words, it is a bottom-up, constructionist view of the world. Promise theory is not a technology or design methodology.

  5. Pygame - Wikipedia

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    Pygame was originally written by Pete Shinners to replace PySDL after its development stalled. [2] [8] It has been a community project since 2000 [9] and is released under the free software GNU Lesser General Public License [5] (which "provides for Pygame to be distributed with open source and commercial software" [10]).

  6. List of free and open-source software packages - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of free and open-source software (FOSS) packages, computer software licensed under free software licenses and open-source licenses.Software that fits the Free Software Definition may be more appropriately called free software; the GNU project in particular objects to their works being referred to as open-source. [1]

  7. Stack Overflow - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] [4] It was created in 2008 by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky. [5] [6] It features questions and answers on certain computer programming topics. [7] [8] [9] It was created to be a more open alternative to earlier question and answer websites such as Experts-Exchange.

  8. Replit - Wikipedia

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    Replit is an online integrated development environment that can be used with a variety of programming languages.. Replit originally supported over 50 programming languages but as of February 23, 2022, Replit uses the Nix package manager [18] which allows users access to the entire Nixpkgs package database.

  9. JavaScript engine - Wikipedia

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    A JavaScript engine is a software component that executes JavaScript code. The first JavaScript engines were mere interpreters, but all relevant modern engines use just-in-time compilation for improved performance. [1] JavaScript engines are typically developed by web browser vendors, and every major browser has one