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The kind of application is specifically Hacker News, not a generic website or webserver. See the essay linked here for what kind of application this is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7651525



Continuations are a questionable fit for web applications in general, however. HTTP is stateless and it requires a lot of extra work to build an abstraction which pretends otherwise. I prefer to embrace that from the beginning so the entire design matches the nature of the medium.


The explanation is mine. It wasn't an argument.

The application and implementation decisions are YC's. The essay explains their rationales.




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