"Spawn as many thousand threads as you like" and D

[Sönke Ludwig via Digitalmars-d]

Am 16.04.2014 15:59, schrieb Bienlein:
> When looking at the success of Go it seems to me that it is caused to a
> large extend by the kind of multi-threading Go offers which is something
> like "spawn as many thousand threads as you like".
>
> Being able to spawn as many thousand threads as needed without caring
> about it seems to be an important aspect for being an interesting
> offering for developing server-side software. It would be nice if D
> could also play in that niche. This could be some killer domain for D
> beyond being a better C++.
>
> While Go uses channels and goroutines D takes some actor-style approach
> when spawning threads. This is also fine, but the problems remains that
> you cannot create as many D kernel threads just as you like. Maybe this
> could be something to improve in D and promote in order to give D a
> further boost. I don't mean to be pushy, it's just about exchanging
> ideas ;-). The FiberScheduler by Sean Kelly could achieve something in
> that direction. What do you think?
>
> Regards, Bienlein

I agree, but I also wonder why you still keep ignoring vibe.d. It 
achieves exactly that - right now! Integration with std.concurrency 
would be great, but at least for now it has an API compatible 
replacement that can be merged later when Sean's pull request is done.