Re:Why Ruby's Timeout is dangerous (and Thread.raise is terr...
by jwlato on Monday June 03, 2024 @01:11PM
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Absolutely this. And when you look through the bug history of those low-level APIs there's a lot of evidence.
That said, the other big difference with Haskell is the low-level API actually provides functionality to solve the exact problem of an async exception being raised anywhere via `mask`. It's still hard to use correctly but at least it's possible.
That said, the other big difference with Haskell is the low-level API actually provides functionality to solve the exact problem of an async exception being raised anywhere via `mask`. It's still hard to use correctly but at least it's possible.