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A comment on Threads Are a Bad Idea for Most Purposes (1995) [pdf]. Parent comment
Sure. The trick is that the thread design does not ENFORCE that, threads as an abstraction involve shared memory.
> If reading your stack trace relies on the state of other threads, you've got a very brittle design.
Or a bug. And a bug or a brittle design is exactly when you need a debugger the most, right?
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Sure. The trick is that the thread design does not ENFORCE that, threads as an abstraction involve shared memory.
> If reading your stack trace relies on the state of other threads, you've got a very brittle design.
Or a bug. And a bug or a brittle design is exactly when you need a debugger the most, right?