Re^2: Thoughts on "Go"?

If it provides Erlang-like good concurrency in an imperative programming language, it has a bright future ahead.

I recently came across CouchDB, which promises good concurrency, and is written in Erlang. Am really liking it. See http://couchdb.apache.org/.

This Erlang with its concurrency sounds good. Where can I subscribe to it? I know not much about it. Is this something that has to be designed from the ground up? How is it in Perl 6?

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Re^3: Thoughts on "Go"? by moritz (Cardinal) on Nov 12, 2009 at 09:19 UTC
Is this something that has to be designed from the ground up? How is it in Perl 6? It has to be considered from the start, at least. Perl 6 has various design decisions that aim at making concurrency as painless as possible, including soft exceptions, contextual instead of global variables, hyper operators and feeds as well as keeping as little mutable state as possible. However concurrency hasn't been the one and only design goal for Perl 6, so I'm not sure if one can expect the same level of concurrency support as from Erlang. We'll see. Perl 6 - links to (nearly) everything that is Perl 6.	[reply]

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Re^3: Thoughts on "Go"?
by moritz (Cardinal) on Nov 12, 2009 at 09:19 UTC

Is this something that has to be designed from the ground up? How is it in Perl 6?

It has to be considered from the start, at least. Perl 6 has various design decisions that aim at making concurrency as painless as possible, including soft exceptions, contextual instead of global variables, hyper operators and feeds as well as keeping as little mutable state as possible.

However concurrency hasn't been the one and only design goal for Perl 6, so I'm not sure if one can expect the same level of concurrency support as from Erlang. We'll see.

Perl 6 - links to (nearly) everything that is Perl 6.

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