News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Genesis of a New Programming Model.

Re:Genesis of a New Programming Model by singularity2001 on Friday March 08, 2024 @01:14AM (#39638290)
> the operation is now guaranteed to run to completion.

unless the backend breaks somehow (server changed ip/ssl/imap password...) in which case it will result in an endless useless retry loop?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Genesis of a New Programming Model by achille-roussel on Friday March 08, 2024 @12:35PM (#39643471)
We can run it forever but it’s rarely useful. Usually, all operations have an associated expiration time so if it’s impossible to succeed it will eventually abort.
[ Parent | on HN ]