Re:Threads Are a Bad Idea for Most Purposes (1995) [pdf]
by pshc on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @11:57PM
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Well, people are working on it. For example, what's been happening in Firefox. C/C++ has a head start in the millions of person-hours.
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Re:Threads Are a Bad Idea for Most Purposes (1995) [pdf]
by nineteen999 on Thursday January 30, 2020 @12:43AM
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One could argue as a counterpoint that the Rust community (and all the other language communities) have millions of person-hours (and lines of of C/C++ open source code) to reference as they RIIR, a luxury the C/C++ community didn't really have, much of what they've built since Linux appeared was developed from scratch. Outside of 386BSD, there wasn't a lot of unencumbered UNIX source code available to them.
Perhaps as the Rust community grows in size and momentum this will happen more. Right now it seems like a bit of a manpower problem.