[OT] Senders and Receivers

[Ali Çehreli]

On 6/2/25 11:06 PM, Paul Backus wrote:

 > The main thesis (quoted from the article's conclusion) is this:
 >
 >> These [unstructured concurrency] primitives are dangerous even if we
 >> don't use them directly, because they undermine our ability to reason
 >> about control flow and compose complex systems out of abstract modular
 >> parts, and they interfere with useful language features like automatic
 >> resource cleanup and error propagation.

The garbage collector wins in that scenario because it removes the need 
for "automatic resource cleanup" e.g. of C++.

That fact was pointed out to me by a colleague years ago: The sender 
threads generate messages, the receiver threads use those messages, and 
thanks to the garbage collector, nobody cares about the ownership of 
messages.

Ali