DIP 1024---Shared Atomics---Accepted

[Walter Bright]

On 1/6/2020 10:17 PM, Manu wrote:
> Well it was a preview for an unaccepted DIP, so it could have been
> withdrawn. I guess I have increased confidence now, but it still seems
> unnecessary to delay.

Preview means for accepted DIPs as well when they break existing code.

>> Don't really have a schedule at the moment. It'll likely be at least a year.
> A year? That's disappointing. What is the reason to delay this? It
> doesn't break anything, and it likely fixes bugs on contact.

It breaks all code that manipulates shared data directly, whether it was 
correctly written or not.