Future of D

[Imperatorn]

On Sunday, 29 October 2023 at 21:32:18 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Sunday, October 29, 2023 3:03:00 PM MDT Imperatorn via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> [...]
>
> You have yet to explain why that information should be made 
> public. Even if you can get the task status without breaking 
> thread-safety, the information is still likely to be 
> out-of-date by the time you actually try to do anything based 
> on it, because once you have the state information out of the 
> Task, that state information is no longer synchronized across 
> threads. It's just a copy of what the state was when the state 
> was copied across threads. So, actually making it possible to 
> get the state information in a thread-safe manner doesn't fix 
> the problem that trying to do anything based on that 
> information involves race conditions.
>
> [...]

Because it would be wonderful. I could use it to draw a rainbow 
on the screen.