Let futures be futures (without.boats)
from sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de to programming@programming.dev on 04 Feb 2024 04:01
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solrize@lemmy.world on 04 Feb 2024 04:13 next collapse

After using Erlang for a while I became convinced that async anything in interpreted languages is a big design fail. There is a very funny but NSFW (lots of swearing) video bashing node.js along those lines:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzkRVzciAZg

Arghblarg@lemmy.ca on 04 Feb 2024 05:45 next collapse

Concluding paragraphs are a thinly veiled bash at Golang and its creators. Whatever. I like Go. I like C. I like lots of other languages, for different reasons. Haven’t learned Rust yet, but am already tired of the ivory-tower attitude of its proponents.

themusicman@lemmy.world on 04 Feb 2024 08:13 next collapse

I like Go too, but not because it’s a good language. I like it because it’s the simplest garbage language I have to use regularly, and that puts a cap on how bad it can be. It also got a lot of language-adjacent things right, like tooling.

Arghblarg@lemmy.ca on 04 Feb 2024 08:36 collapse

Heh, ‘garbage language’ or ‘garbage-collected language’? Until Go I considered the two to be the same :)

But yeah… the tooling is a strong point IMO.

(Package management went downhill once the whole GOPROXY thing was introduced. When ‘go get’ was the simplest way to fetch packages, things were great IMHO … but I’m not doing big enterprise-y stuff so maybe my view is too narrow as to the issues of ‘vendoring’, version management etc.)

codemonk@programming.dev on 04 Feb 2024 09:41 collapse

I would not call it a bash. Go’s approach naturally comes up in discussions on async Rust. Thus, it makes sense to at least briefly mentioning the trade-offs that approach has.

cgtjsiwy@programming.dev on 04 Feb 2024 13:36 collapse

The author should look into Koka. As I see it, Koka is at the bleeding edge of effect handling, which is why the async Rust team has taken some nibbles of inspiration from it. Alas, Rust as a whole is far too cemented to overhaul everything for generic effect support, but at least it’s been beneficial for async.