Weirdly, I think Haskell has an equivalent: MVar. It has its (low-level) uses, but its quite hard to get any sort of non-trivial (non-rendezvous) synchronizatio

Weirdly, I think Haskell has an equivalent: MVar. It has its (low-level) uses, but its quite hard to get any sort of non-trivial (non-rendezvous) synchronization protocol right. It's incredibly easy to deadlock. (But that may be mostly to do with the MVar's paucity of non-blocking primitives.)