On Sunday, June 29, 2014 12:50:19 AM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Chris Angelico wrote:
> > Threading is a focus of so many myths. People who don't understand it > > think that threads are magic pixie dust that fixes everything, or else > > magic pixie dust that breaks everything. Or both, at the same time. > > Neither notion is true. > I'm in the latter camp. > More precisely: threads have their uses but they are used far too much > and not feared nearly enough. Third Camp: Since both views are true: Chris: Threads solve a large class of important problems Marko: Threads are horribly error prone lets have a (bondage-and-discipline) language that supports smooth mostly error-free threads. Most famous recent example is Go. More classic (and more bondage-and-discipline) are Erlang, CloudHaskell PS. I find the success of node.js (async model) scary. The success is a fact -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
