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Most likely Jake encountered real world cases that really needed to use parallel promises and used fetch() as an example that could fit in a blog.

Maybe in the real world it's file or database reads, off-thread parsing, decompression, etc...




Yes, this is why I wrote:

> I know this doesn't answer the question of how to deal with the promises themselves

I'm trying to bring up a bigger picture here.




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