Try to briefly state the difference between fulfill and resolve

[domenic]

I am thinking something along the lines like "in 90% of the cases, the verb is resolve and the adjective is fulfilled. Here is why..."

[jan-ivar]

Where's the 10% where "fulfill" is used as a verb, other than by the promise implementation itself?

It doesn't help that resolved (the fate) = resolve OR reject.

Don't forget failure: Try to briefly state the difference between rejected (the state) and reject.

Btw, why this asymmetry in language in success vs. failure? Isn't it symmetrical?

[domenic]

It's not symmetrical at all, as the states vs. fates document you already found explains in great detail.

Fulfill as a verb is appropriate when the value you're resolving with is known to be a non-thenable. In such a case both fulfill and resolve are equally correct, and fulfill conveys slightly more information.

[jan-ivar]

Ah, I get the asymmetry now. There's no special treatment for thenables in reject. Thanks!

[domenic]

Cool. Yeah this was more a note to myself to expand on in a future PR, which I'll ping you to help review :)

[atanassov]

@domenic given it's been a while for this issue and the spec has evolved since then to adopt and use fulfill mostly everywhere, should we close this?

[domenic]

I think people still get confused about this, but maybe it's fine to just keep pointing them to https://github.com/domenic/promises-unwrapping/blob/master/docs/states-and-fates.md.