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Mikera | 11 years ago

Clojure has all of this in core.async - which is just a library, it doesn't need special support from the underlying language.

goroutines are certainly nice and CSP is a good mental model for solving many problems, but I don't think a feature like this should be used to justify switching to a whole new language.

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Blackthorn|11 years ago

What? No. You could not be more wrong. core.async does not support the first point in the least.

Don't believe me? Make a go block in core.async and have it call another function, then have that function block. Do it 10,000 times. I'll wait. And wait. And wait. And wait...get the picture?

Clojure has this in Pulsar, which is a library...that happens to perform bytecode modification to support this (which I consider to be on the same level as special support from the underlying level). Pulsar is an absolutely amazing project and I'm not trying to take anything away from it with this comment, but merely trying to illustrate how far off you are.