On 1/26/14 7:00 AM, Vladimir Lushnikov wrote:
Here are a couple of observations/comments from a rust lurker:
* +1 for message-passing as a core paradigm for inter-thread
communication. It is significantly easier to reason about than shared
memory. It is not a silver bullet for all cases of course (but that is
why you have unsafe code):
Well, you don't need unsafe code for shared memory. IMHO, one of the
best features about Rust is that it has an excellent story for shared
memory when you need it: it's memory safe and race free.
But in the general case, "do not communicate by sharing memory; share
memory by communicating" should still be your first approach. There is
nothing evil about shared memory, but I think history has shown that it
is inherently harder to reason about.
Patrick
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