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rafael 2020-01-29T20:51:31.002200Z

This is a pretty cool talk about the design of Kotlin coroutines: https://youtu.be/Mj5P47F6nJg I didn't get all the details, but the basic idea of "structured concurrency" for building well-behaved trees of futures seems interesting.

rafael 2020-01-29T20:54:41.002400Z

The presenter mentions this blog post as the inspiration for the "structured concurrency" name https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-go-statement-considered-harmful/

jsa-aerial 2020-01-29T21:42:45.002600Z

That's the Trio guy. Trio is the only concurrent thing for Python that ever made any sense or was of any real use. It's actually pretty good