Drew McCormack on Nostr: It is a risky time for Swift. They are channeling enormous resources into solving ...
It is a risky time for Swift. They are channeling enormous resources into solving multi-threading at compile time, but the remedy is worse than the sickness. They are introducing a whole different problem: systemic race conditions. Interleaving of async functions. These are much more difficult to track down IMO. I am literally breaking my head on some of these things. Without a transactional system like dispatch, you end up with something more complex than multithreading.
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