== Quote from Walter Bright ([email protected])'s article > hasenj wrote: > > Walter Bright wrote: > >> Message passing for concurrency is a solid solution for many types of > >> concurrency problems, but it isn't a panacea. > > > > Do you think D would benefit if you add this (or similar) feature to it? > Sean is working on a message passing (CSP) package for D. I'm not > convinced it needs to be a core language feature, though.
This is true. After I created ParallelFuture (the lib w/ parallel foreach, map, reduce), a friend mentioned that my model was pretty similar to the OpenMP model. I read a little about OpenMP and it really hit home how powerful a language D is, given that I was able to implement something OpenMP-ish as a pure library, without any modifications to the compiler. The fact that message passing is built into Go! makes me wonder if there's a reason why it can't be done well in a library.
