Show HN: Ts-Chan – Go-Like Concurrency Primitives for TypeScript/JavaScript

Re:Show HN: Ts-Chan – Go-Like Concurrency Primitives for Typ... by 29athrowaway on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @11:40PM (#38186874)

In JS, without worker threads or similar situations, you don't have real race conditions. Therefore, concurrency primitives like mutexes, condition variables, barriers, semaphores, etc. are not necessary.

You can use a global variable and it will be fine because it won't be accessed simultaneously.

So truly what this is is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYSSYm0b2wk

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Re:Show HN: Ts-Chan – Go-Like Concurrency Primitives for Typ... by joeycumines on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @05:44AM (#38188710)

What makes data races not a "real race condition"?

Anyhow, do what you will. I don't get the impression that you are genuinely interested in this topic.

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Re:Show HN: Ts-Chan – Go-Like Concurrency Primitives for Typ... by 29athrowaway on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @05:50PM (#38198376)

Thanks for conceding the point. Have fun.

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