What the heck is the event loop anyway? | Philip Roberts | JSConf EU
3.8M views · Oct 9, 2014 · Science & Technology
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@sumanyusoniwal5194 · 2 years ago
9 years later, and this is still pure gold.
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@syedmuhammadibtisam441 · 3 years ago
He understood it in 18 months, for me it took 26 minutes, that is how much he helped me, really appreciate it. Time is all you have. Thank you man!!!
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@marios2liquid · 11 years ago
This talk is the perfect example of "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough". Well done Philip.
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@e.b.7568 · 2 years ago
I watch in 2024, April 1st, sleepless night...
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@BURN-ADDiCT · 4 years ago
"I did not do a computer science degree, so these words... they're words" <br><br>I relate so so deeply with that
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@MonubiJustin · 2 weeks ago
11 years later ang yet I find this talk still usefull even with all the AI slop and staff
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@apoorvasa1026 · 4 years ago
Today I had interview and was asked about execution context and i explained him based on this video. my interviewer was so impressed with the my answer. he said "This is the best explanation i have heard so far". made my day 🙂
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@nathancovey · 1 year ago
Came here from the Odin Project. This video is gold
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@ttChopper007 · 8 months ago
it is 2026 and I still come back to this video to relearn about event loop lol
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@belloalamin2735 · 2 days ago
I rarely comment on videos, but this is simply brilliant. Hats off to you sir
@R3fuge · 4 years ago
8 years ago and this is still my favorite explanation of the event loop. Brilliant communication.
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@AndreOliveira-vq7iv · 7 years ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aGhZQkoFbQ&t=825">13:45</a><br>"The event loop job is to look at the stack and look at the task queue. If the stack is empty, it takes the first thing on the queue and pushed it on to the stack."
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