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Bryan Cantrill's talk about Rust addresses when they removed green threads, and how much of a bold, disruptive change that was. He remarks on how that impressed
by artursapek 7y ago
Bryan Cantrill's talk about Rust addresses when they removed green threads, and how much of a bold, disruptive change that was. He remarks on how that impressed him with the Rust community and made him follow the language more closely - had they been too scared to change the language in drastic ways, we would still be stuck with green threads.
Sorry, I can't remember the timestamp right now but the entire thing is worth a listen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjFM8vw3pbU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjFM8vw3pbU
- steveklabnik 7y agoAnd to be clear, this was before 1.0; we cannot do this kind of thing these days.