On Thursday, 28 January 2016 at 17:21:21 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:30:28 +0000, Brad Anderson wrote:
Yeah, boost can do fibers. ASIO has clever/hacky "stackless
coroutines" and C++17 is going to add "stackless resumable
functions" for async/await. D is about to lose a competitive
advantage here.
I looked at those stackless coroutines. They're nowhere near
good enough for what I wanted to do. You can't use them for a
vibe-like framework. But they're still called coroutines, so
D's going to lose a marketing advantage.
They aren't fit for every task, of course.
They've been discussed here on the NG in the past:
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/izosaywbnlxnbzyhj...@forum.dlang.org
