Why I think Node.JS is a terrible platform

Re:Why I think Node.JS is a terrible platform by heretohelp on Monday September 10, 2012 @11:42AM (#4500342)

I'm actually pretty familiar with the current state of deterministic concurrency as a field of research and it has little to do with lock-free algorithms at all.

For that matter, what little of deterministic concurrency exists (FP interleaving, coroutines), it is only the palest imitation of true concurrency and how it gets used in practice for which one can SAFELY assume that useful and meaningful concurrency DOES IN FACT constitute non-determinism which also happens to be an apt way to summarize and contrast the subject with parallelism.

The best way to demonstrate deterministic concurrency would probably be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_long_instruction_word

But for the purposes of anybody on here, that's mostly irrelevant.

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Re:Why I think Node.JS is a terrible platform by jahewson on Monday September 10, 2012 @01:42PM (#4500975)

What? You can't just dismiss coroutines as not "meaningful concurrency". Given that every major language outside of C and Fortran has a native implementation, I'd call that pretty useful, and pretty meaningful.

> Concurrency is by definition, non-determinism.

The fact is that you are wrong: coroutines are a form of deterministic concurrency. They're also very useful.

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