I certainly didn't mean to insult the author of the article... I just meant that the tone of the article itself had the sort of curmudgeonly tone that a lot of

I certainly didn't mean to insult the author of the article... I just meant that the tone of the article itself had the sort of curmudgeonly tone that a lot of really good system programmers have towards fancy new technologies in their infancy. All I mean to say is, some of those fancy new technologies do grow up to become quite useful. And STM is designed around memory access. If you're attempting to write a concurrent program, and you have heterogeneous resource types, shouldn't you use a strategy which is optimal for each one? An IO socket is a fundamentally different sort of thing than memory, and ought to be managed differently.