Re:State of Loom
by jerf on Sunday May 17, 2020 @07:54PM
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I hope so too.
I want to emphasize that what was discovered by those papers is that if you take existing programs and squeeze all the parallelism from them you possibly can safely and automatically, it doesn't get you very much.
That doesn't mean that new languages and/or paradigms may not be able to get a lot more in the future.
But I do think just bodging promises on to the side of an existing language isn't it. In general that's just a slight tweak on what we already had and you don't get a lot out of it.
I want to emphasize that what was discovered by those papers is that if you take existing programs and squeeze all the parallelism from them you possibly can safely and automatically, it doesn't get you very much.
That doesn't mean that new languages and/or paradigms may not be able to get a lot more in the future.
But I do think just bodging promises on to the side of an existing language isn't it. In general that's just a slight tweak on what we already had and you don't get a lot out of it.