The problem is that the javascript is stuck in the while and stuck my program. so my question is how can I wait in the middle of the function until flag is true without "busy-wait"?

Jun 9, 2016 · The while loop will not wait for setTimeout() to complete. You need to set different time delay for each to execute them with different times and use closure for holding the value …

Mar 9, 2017 · A while loop is better thought of as a looping version of an if statement than akin to a for loop. If there is quirkiness in all of this, it's the for statement's wholesale divergence from …

Aug 27, 2010 · The setTimeout() function is non-blocking and will return immediately. Therefore your loop will iterate very quickly and it will initiate 3-second timeout triggers one after the …

Jan 17, 2018 · That works, which is good, but 1) it makes unnecessary calculations after the loop, 2) on each loop it checks && years++ which makes unnecessary calcs too. As programmers …

This series of posts might be a better start to understand that than the MDN documentation IMO: ♻️ JavaScript Visualized: Event Loop ⏳ Run loop for a fixed amount of time: If what you want …

Nov 9, 2021 · By adding another variable, for example, counter, to the variable declarations, initialized to zero, and increment it inside the loop. Your current loop appears to use popSize …

Jan 7, 2012 · The continue restartLoop will jump back out to continue with the next iteration of the while loop, which then immediately starts the for loop from the beginning including all of the …

Oct 7, 2015 · All your while loop does, is creating the interval, which is ran asynchronous from the loop itself. In other words, the only way your while condition equates to false, is after multiple …

Jun 10, 2010 · If you iterate over an array with for.. of, the body of the loop is executed length times, and the loop control variable is set to undefined for any items not actually present in the …