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• promiscuous-promises abstract "Promises allow to asynchronously return a value from a synchronous function. If the return value is not known when the function exists, you can return a promise that will be fulfilled with that value later on. This comes in handy for JavaScript, which is often used for Web programming and thus has to rely on asynchronous return values: downloads, API calls, read/write operations, … In those cases, promises can make your code easier and thus better. This post briefly explains promises and then zooms in on the methods I used to create promiscuous, a small Promise implementation for JavaScript.".