Rename async to something else

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Vivus version: 0.3.2

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I saw this project posted on /r/javascript. I just wanted to start a dialogue regarding the async method. I think it’s confusingly named. I know that in programming synchronous means to do things one after another, while async means, well, to do them as things happen (via callbacks or using promises or async/await in JS).

But when I think about what the drawing method that is used when calling async in this library, it reminds me of marching bands and synchronized swimming and such. The lines are drawn in a synchronized fashion. So I feel like async is a confusing name.

I’m not here to crap on this project or anything, I just thought it’d be good start a dialogue on this before the project hits 1.0 and the name can’t easily be changed.

Thoughts?

[maxwellito]

Dammit! I wanted to discretely pass the nsync in the types list. But you got the idea before… let’s put it anyway 😃 About the naming, I saw something on Reddit I quite like : parallel. It’s simple and really describe my vision of it. Do you find it alright? I just want to stay away from ‘sync’.

I wanted to keep ‘delayed’, and maybe rename the ‘oneByOne’ to something like ‘queue’.

[AshleyGrant]

I’ll list some options. Hopefully some other people will get in here and throw a ruckus about how bad my suggestions are.

• sync
• synchronized
• atTheSameTime
• allTogether
• justinTimberlake (get it, b/c everything is drawn “n’Sync”)

Ok, so that last one is a joke, and the other ones all have flaws. But if we’ve got OneByOne then AtTheSameTime might work.

As far as the other names, I think they’re fine, but that’s just, like, my opinion, man.