Project Loom: Fibers and Continuations for the Java Virtual Machine

Re:Project Loom: Fibers and Continuations for the Java Virtu... by djb_hackernews on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @11:24AM (#15602083)

I skimmed the article but this seems heavily influenced by Quasar http://docs.paralleluniverse.co/quasar/ but doesn't make any mention of it.

I have some experience with it and I found it to be a very well designed and documented API. I hope to see it in the JVM someday.

The person behind it is pretty active online and does some other interesting things (the TLA+ subreddit), not sure if they are an hn reader but I hope they chime in here.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Project Loom: Fibers and Continuations for the Java Virtu... by geodel on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @12:22PM (#15602785)

If you look at openjdk mailing list Quasar author has joined Oracle and putting this proposal.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Project Loom: Fibers and Continuations for the Java Virtu... by djb_hackernews on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @12:50PM (#15603131)

Thank you for connecting the dots for me. The creator of Pulsar is Ron Pressler and the author of this proposal.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Project Loom: Fibers and Continuations for the Java Virtu... by Blackthorn on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @03:58PM (#15604923)

Ah, that explains why quasar development has been idle for a while, after the jdk9 release. I can't wait to see this in Java proper, quasar is pretty magical and I was looking forward to seeing it extended to all jvm languages transparently.

[ Parent | on HN ]