Gary Willoughby: "Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers"

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Sat, 2015-03-28 at 12:58 +0000, Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
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> It does, and it should. In fact, I'd consider it massive selling 
> point for D if it were; "you want easy Go-like concurrency? D has 
> that too". Right now, it's available easily for writing servers: 
> just use vibe.d. But it'd be great if the concurrency was 
> available without depending on the rest of the library.
> 
> I see no difference between "go func" and "runTask()". "select" 
> might be a different matter, though, I don't know.

I need to be convinced that the concurrency and parallelism model of 
vibe.d is in fact equivalent to that of goroutines, currently I would 
say they are very, very different.

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