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Re:Tree-Structured Concurrency by adamwk on Sunday July 02, 2023 @02:03PM (#36563923)
Isn’t erlang a very different, almost opposite concurrency model? I’m not an erlang expert but async message passing is a very different style. The limitation around background tasks in structured concurrency is trivial in erlang for example
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Re:Tree-Structured Concurrency by matreyes on Monday July 03, 2023 @11:05AM (#36573942)
Yes, but proceses are supervised (in a tree structure). So you have the same warranties described in structured concurrency
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Re:Tree-Structured Concurrency by swader999 on Monday July 03, 2023 @01:03PM (#36575813)
Yeah this seems compelling, especially the economics of it when paying for machine time.
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