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[Sean Kelly]

Thanks :-)  If you have ideas on how it could be improved, please let me know.

On Jan 19, 2012, at 12:58 PM, Nathan M. Swan wrote:

> I want to applaud Sean Kelly and everyone who worked on std.concurrency for a great API, and wish that I could easily write Cocoa applications with it.
> 
> I'm writing a screen recording program in Objective-C, and to make sure each frame has an equal length, I have two threads: one that takes the screenshot at certain intervals, the other that assembles it into a quicktime movie. After writing an implementation of a thread-safe queue, where the picture-taking thread adds and the assembling thread removes, I realized the huge similarity between what I'd done and std.concurrency.
> 
> The std.concurrency module would have made hours of effort in ObjC take five minutes in D. Well done!