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Re:Concurrent JavaScript: It can work by spankalee on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @02:26PM (#15134654)
User-land Transferrables would obviously need to be implemented with shared memory, otherwise you could just use the existing structured clone operation.

This post isn't just about an underlying shared memory model, concurrent access to objects and variables is exposed to users, and enabled by default. That's a huge footgun that I thought the PL world was moving away from.

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Re:Concurrent JavaScript: It can work by pizlonator on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @02:33PM (#15134709)
Threads are quite successful in the real world. I think it's because the alternatives are either harder, less capable, less scalable, or even more of a footgun.
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Re:Concurrent JavaScript: It can work by BatFastard on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @10:48PM (#15137824)
I personally love the idea of of transferable objects, this could work very well in an event driven architecture.
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