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.
--
Ziad
How very true, but, by the time you run into data races, you are
pretty much commited to go.
Sad.
