Developed Neo-async, an improved version of async

[suguru03]

Hi. I have developed Neo-async, basically it is an improved version of the original async module. It keeps all the original functions, so it is thought to be a drop-in replacement. At the moment it only includes just a small extra functionality. Neo-async offers better overall performance and almost 100% code coverage.

We are using Async for managing asynchronous operations in our project since it offers a straightforward solution and has the source code well organized. We use it very often in our code, but we have detected some perfomance problems, this is our motivation to create a version with these perfomance problems solved.

I would really appreciate your feedback or any comments. Thank you.

[thammin]

Impressive! 👍

[martinheidegger]

If it truly is a "drop-in-replacement" then I wonder why you not just created a PR here to improve the quality of async? I assume that there are some "incompatibilities". Would love to know what they are about.

[suguru03]

@thammin @martinheidegger
Thanks for replies!
I have been using Async in production, and an error occured due to a bug. I sent a PR at that time but it has not been merged yet. That is my main motivation to develop Neo-Async as a separate project. In order to achieve a better performance Neo-Async has been built from scratch. The code structure of Neo-Async is far from Async now, so it could not be merged anymore.
I think the relation between async and Neo-Async could be similar to the one between Underscore and lodash. I am also planning to implement more methods to improve the usability.

[ralgara]

@suguru03

Great job on Neo-Async. Also here trying to find a fix for #508/#512 -- there is a similarly pending PR. Any chance it can be addressed in Neo-Async?

[suguru03]

@ralgara

Thank you for your comment.
OK, I try to fix it ASAP.

[aearly]

BTW, since we have a couple more maintainers now, PRs will start getting merged again. 😄

[suguru03]

Thank your very much for your contribution.
I’m very happy for published new version and want to improve async :)