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Discussion on: That's one small step for a developer, one giant leap for the web

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Yes on the server side it brings an amazing set of functionality. Treating stuff as stream has performance advantages on certain applications. Regarding the story of cancelling promises it's not just promises any even can be cancelled. That was one of the powerful functionalities. I felt it to be extremely useful as I had some unorthodox usecases at work to implement streams in existing javascript app.