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

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 3/28/2015 3:24 PM, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
> If you ask me, they are very practical as they are - in fact much more practical
> than if they could move between threads, not just because of purity or not. I'm
> for example heavily using vibe.d's tasks for all kinds of UI, 3D graphics, sound
> and physics related things. All of these require calling various C libraries
> that are not be compatible with such a scheme.
>
> We could of course add an optional pure+moving mode for those that absolutely
> need it, but IMHO we should first have hard evidence for practical performance
> improvements before going such a route.

Sounds very sensible. When can we get it into Phobos? :-)