On Fri, 2015-03-13 at 20:12 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On 3/13/15 5:54 PM, deadalnix wrote: > > On Saturday, 14 March 2015 at 00:34:35 UTC, Ziad Hatahet wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 6:45 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d < > >> digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > >> > >>> The removal of shared memory multi-threading in favour of using > >>> processes and channels should never be underestimated as a Really Good > >>> Thing™ that other native code languages (*) have failed to do anything > >>> about. Thus Go wins, others lose. > >>> > >> > >> Except that Go does not really remove shared memory multithreading; it is > >> still possible to get data races (which is why they have a race > >> detector). > >> They provide channels, but nothing is preventing races other than > >> convention. On the other hand, Rust (a native code language) offers a > >> much > >> superior solution, with compile-time enforcement of data sharing.
Rust may indeed be superior to Go on this. It will be interesting to see if Rust, once formally released to world, makes an impression on the rise of Go. I certainly hope so, since writing Rust code is nicer than writing Go code. I suspect not. Go marketed itself as a "better C" (as C++ did originally), and got some Python folk and a lot of PHP folk to switch: Go's main traction is in the Internet, networking, Web applications arena despite claiming to be a systems programming language. Rust is pitching against C++ as D does. C++ folk appear to be locked-in in a way that means Rust and D need to rethink the pitch. > > > > How very true, but, by the time you run into data races, you are pretty > > much commited to go. > > > > Sad. Why? In any CSP-like system, it is possible to get deadlock, livelock and races. However "debugging" them is nigh on trivial compared to the effort required with shared-memory multi threading. PyCSP and Python-CSP as well as Go show this. > I'm surprised Russel fell for it. -- Andrei Fell for what? -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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