Re:Concurrent JavaScript: It can work
by dboreham on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @09:07PM
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Oh ffs I feel like I'm back in 1994 or so...
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Because there was some huge breakthrough since eliminating threading issues?
(If you answer just use Erlang, CSP or any other variation, well, my point exactly).
Re:Concurrent JavaScript: It can work
by pizlonator on Thursday August 31, 2017 @11:13AM
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The only breakthrough is that some of us learned to use threads. Apparently some of us didn’t.
Apparently, after decades of CS and tons of costly errors, some of us still haven't learned than issues like memory safety, race conditions, etc are either handled at the language level, or are dangerous for everybody -- and that those that consider themselves immune to them because they "know how to use them" and are "better programmers" are just deluded.