Concurrency architecture for D2

[Jason House]

retard Wrote:

> Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:32:52 -0600, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 
> > I think we are now in the position of defining a solid set of
> > concurrency primitives for D. This follows many months of mulling over
> > models and options.
> > 
> > It would be great to open the participation to the design as broadly as
> > possible, but I think it's realistic to say we won't be able to get
> > things done on the newsgroup. When we discuss a topic around here,
> > there's plenty of good ideas but also the inevitable bikeshed
> > discussions, explanations being asked, explanations being given, and
> > other sources of noise. We simply don't have the time to deal with all
> > that - the time is short and we only have one shot at this.
> > 
> > That's why I'm thinking of creating a mailing list or maybe another
> > group for this. Any ideas on what would be the best approach? I also
> > want to gauge interest from threading experts who'd like to participate.
> > Please advise: (a) whether you would like to participate to the design;
> > (b) keep discussions on the general group; (c) create a separate
> > newsgroup; (d) create a mailing list. The latter would have open
> > enrollment.
> 
> Have the discussions here ever led to a conclusion and get implemented?

DIP2 is a great example of something designed on this newsgroup that got implemented very recently. It went from newsgroup to bugzilla to DIP to implementation. T[new] is another one that almost made it.

 
> You should at least disallow posting via the web interface - those broken 
> threads start to annoy some people.

Do my posts show up as broken threads? I use the web interface almost exclusively.