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NewsEscape from Callback Hell Pin
Terrence Dorsey4-Nov-12 9:44
sitebuilderTerrence Dorsey4-Nov-12 9:44 
Elm[^]:
If you have worked with AJAX or node.js or any other callback heavy framework, you have probably been to Callback Hell. Your whole application ends up being passed around as callbacks, making the code extremely difficult to read and maintain. The resulting tangled mess of code is often pejoritively called spaghetti code, a term borrowed from the days of goto.
Callbacks are the modern GOTO.

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