The article discusses the concept of the await event horizon in JavaScript, which is a boundary similar to the event horizon of a black hole. It explains how async functions traverse this horizon when awaiting promises, and the potential issues that can arise. It also explores explicit resource management and the use of AbortSignals as potential solutions. The article concludes by discussing the concept of structured concurrency and how it can be achieved using generator functions.

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Is Explicit Resource Management a solution?Does AbortSignal help?Structured Concurrency and the await event horizonStructured Concurrency and JavaScript

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