> Now I am seeing the same craziness with “a sync” and continuations and wonder if I will be lucky enough to outlive it to. Maybe you will. It's an attempt to

> Now I am seeing the same craziness with “a sync” and continuations and wonder if I will be lucky enough to outlive it to. Maybe you will. It's an attempt to address shortcomings of shared memory, just like borrow checker. Once languages start moving away from shared memory to actors, there will be no need for any of it. But it could take a long time, the industry dug itself way too deep into the whole shared memory world.