Opportunities for D

[Paolo Invernizzi via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 10 July 2014 at 06:32:32 UTC, logicchains wrote:
> On Thursday, 10 July 2014 at 05:58:56 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
>> We already have actor-style via std.concurrency. We also have 
>> fork-join parallelism via std.parallel. What we need is a 
>> library for CSP.
>
> The actor-style via std.concurrency is only between 
> 'heavyweight' threads though, no? Even if lightweight threads 
> may be overhyped, part of the appeal of Go and Erlang is that 
> one can spawn tens of thousands of threads and it 'just works'. 
> It allows the server model of 'one green thread/actor per 
> client', which has a certain appeal in its simplicity. Akka 
> similarly uses its own lightweight threads, not heavyweight JVM 
> threads.

As Sean wrote, please check [1] or if you need it right now, Vibe 
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Paolo


[1] https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1910