Agreed. Raw threads are almost always the wrong application-level concurrency abstraction. Actors/Erlang-style concurrency and futures are both much better ab

Agreed. Raw threads are almost always the wrong application-level concurrency abstraction. Actors/Erlang-style concurrency and futures are both much better abstractions for application programmers. I'm also a big fan of threads with compile-time proofs against data races, a la Rust, but I can appreciate it's a lot to learn for many application programmers.