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Re:Why I’m Learning Perl 6 by Rafert on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @01:40PM (#14858318)
> Ruby has [...] likewise community gems with more robust functionality like Quasar.

https://github.com/ruby-concurrency/concurrent-ruby for those wondering. Rails uses it as of version 5.

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Re:Why I’m Learning Perl 6 by dullgiulio on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @04:31PM (#14860012)
Concurency doesn't mean multithreading. The "yield" keyword in Python enables a for of concurrency and Python is infamous for not being multi-threaded (when interpreting Python.)
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Re:Why I’m Learning Perl 6 by chrisseaton on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @02:24PM (#14858777)
You must be thinking of something else. Concurrent Ruby doesn't include any functionality that is anything like fibres, lightweight threads, or M:N threading (I work on the project).
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