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Or you had other ways of indicating scripts were meant for processing after the document had been parsed (which might be smart or even essential depending on your support targets).

That might have been something that senior devs only did 5-10 years ago, rather than something senior devs do now, though if that's the case one might wonder exactly what we mean when we say "senior."



Even if you chose a different implementation in the end, you'd still be aware of what defer is.


I've seen it for the first time.

But it didn't seem too obscure to me. Deferring execution is a known technique, so I would have probably guessed it right or switched it up with async.




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