Why “flows” is being discussed
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> Sure, the same can be said of an async library An generic future is much harder to be called like this. You need to to create wakers and if you don't properly handle them you'…
by SkiFire13 · Oct 31, 2026
Strange how you complain about this for circular flows when of course the GOAT of circular flows is the money system itself govt prints money (FED) -> government -> banks -> (ec…
by spwa4 · Oct 31, 2026
Yes, Be GUI is heavily multithreaded, so core dumps were kind of common, and stuff like Swing.invokeLater(closure) only came later in Swing, after existing for a while as commun…
by pjmlp · Oct 31, 2026
Message-passing is popular in HPC (e.g. MPI) because it more closely models how hardware works. But at a higher level people mostly prefer to build abstractions on top of it lik…
by Twey · Oct 31, 2026
Your comment is phrased as a rebuttal, but I actually agree with it wholeheartedly, with one minor quibble. > Blocking threads are a much more natural way of thinking about conc…
by Twey · Oct 31, 2026
> This is incorrect. You can easily call that flow from a blocking function, just call it in a loop. Sure, the same can be said of an async library — so long as you're okay with…
by Twey · Oct 31, 2026
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