On Saturday, 3 January 2015 at 12:34:10 UTC, Jonathan M Davis via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
their memory model into account. The vast majority of D code
won't care one
whit and won't have any problems, because very little of it
needs to be
shared, and thread communication most typically is done via
message passing
using std.concurrency, not by declaring shared variables.
I don't agree with this. If you avoid the problem by message
passing, then you should do like Go and make it a language
feature. And accept that you loose out on efficiency and restrict
the application domain.
If you make "shared" a language feature you also need to back it
up with semantic analysis and prove that the concept is sound and
useful (i.e. no need to break encapsulation, not making most
libraries unusable without unsafe casting etc).
