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Lots of low-level fun in Haskell's future :)

• WJW 6y ago
  A really underappreciated part of Haskell is innovation in things other than the type system. Linear types is one of them, but STM and lightweight threading were in Haskell long before they became popular in other languages.
  • the-smug-one 6y ago
    That is technically correct, but green threads were available in Java 1.1 :). They just weren't popular enough (I guess).
    • dwohnitmok 6y ago
      I actually think green threads in GHC narrowly beat out green threads in Java (I think GHC got them in 1996 or earlier). But I also don't think Haskell was the first language to get them. Haskell's been around for a long time! GHC was begun in 1989.