On Tuesday, 12 May 2020 at 09:23:40 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Mon, 2020-05-11 at 19:34 +0200, Jacob Carlborg via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
On 2020-05-11 16:44, Russel Winder wrote:
> Crickey, a third option. This wil increase my dithering! ;-)
Forth: Mecca [1] :)
[1] https://github.com/weka-io/mecca
Hummm… it seems everyone who needed async activity and
particularly I/O in D has written their own. Mostly along with
all their own data structures and algorithms library.
Yeah it is a shame, but you see it in almost every language.
Probably means concurrency and io isn't a fully solved problem
yet.
I keep trying to come back to D for GTK+ working, but in the
end I keep going back to Python and Rust because D has no
futures, and no added extras over GtkD auto translation of the
GTK+ API to make it D-y in the way gtk-rs make GTK+ Rust-y.
Sorry for the apparent gloom, I just felt the need to tell it
how I feel.
I think there are a lot of lessons to be learned from all the
efforts in the programming community.
We should:
- get stackless coroutines
- get structured concurrency
- steal as many idea from the C++'s executors proposal
(http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2020/p0443r13.html)
