> Haskell threads can be preempted externally - this allows you to ensure they never leak. Vs a goroutine that can just spin forever if it doesn't explicitly yield.
Goroutines are preemptible by the runtime (since https://go.dev/doc/go1.14#runtime) but they're still not addressable or killable through the language itself.
Re:Java Virtual Threads: A Case Study
by whateveracct on Thursday July 18, 2024 @02:04AM
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The GHC runtime has lots of cool concurrency features.
Async exceptions as a way to pass messages (and kill threads!)
Allocation limits for threads.
Software Transactional Memory.
- All IO is non-blocking by default.
- FFI support for interruptible.
- Haskell threads can be preempted externally - this allows you to ensure they never leak. Vs a goroutine that can just spin forever if it doesn't explicitly yield.
- There are various stdlib abstractions for building concurrent programs in a compositional way.