Remember that Go vs D MQTT thing and how we wondered about dmd vs gdc?

[Sean Kelly]

On Saturday, 8 March 2014 at 12:13:07 UTC, logicchains wrote:
> On Saturday, 8 March 2014 at 11:23:17 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
>> I guess D could be said to have actors already using spawn and 
>> the
>> message queue.
>
> In std.concurrency, the documentation states that: "Right now, 
> only in-process threads are supported and referenced by a more 
> specialized handle called a Tid. It is effectively a subclass 
> of Cid, with additional features specific to in-process 
> messaging". Is there any timeline on when out-process threads 
> will be supported? I think that would bring D closer to being 
> able to achieve Erlang style concurrency.

There's already a pull request in place to support green threads. 
If you mean IPC, we really need serialization first, and it would 
be nice to have a decent network API as well. But I've been 
meaning to sort out a prototype anyway. Tid will remain the 
reference to a thread regardless of which process it lives in, 
and I'll be adding a Node type.