> In the next round of languages, we'll probably have to deal directly with non-shared memory. Totally shared memory in multiprocessors is an illusion maintaine

> In the next round of languages, we'll probably have to deal directly with non-shared memory. Totally shared memory in multiprocessors is an illusion maintained by elaborate cache interlocking and huge inter-cache bandwidth. That has scaling limits. Future languages will probably have to track which CPUs can access which data. "Thread local" and "immutable" are a start. Interesting prediction. It is precisely the model of threading which Nim follows, global variables are thread local and sharing them is restricted. I'm not sure if the Nim designer thought of it in the terms you've described, but I will certainly point this out to him :)