It's amusing to note that the rewriting of a concurrent language as a C library has happened before in Bell Lab's history (by some of the same people who worked

It's amusing to note that the rewriting of a concurrent language as a C library has happened before in Bell Lab's history (by some of the same people who worked on Go and its precursors). Specifically, the same thing we're talking about here already happened with Alef[0], a CSP-based language, which was scrapped in favor of a C library[1] (man 2 thread) in the third edition of the Plan 9 OS[2]. [0] http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/2nd_edition/papers/alef/ http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/2nd_edition/papers/alef/ [1] http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/2/thread http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/2/thread [2] http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/release3 http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/release3