I am not exceptionally smart and I am certainly able to write (and debug) multi-threaded C code, but it is painful :-) I try to use C++ instead whenever I can.

I am not exceptionally smart and I am certainly able to write (and debug) multi-threaded C code, but it is painful :-) I try to use C++ instead whenever I can. BTW, "multiprocessing" is not a drop-in replacement for multithreading. In fact, there are many domains where "multiprocessing" just isn't possible or practical. So the real solution is to use another language.