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If you read TFA, you'd have seen this problem isn't exclusive to Ruby at all, several other languages have a similar API.

• jupp0r 2y ago
  This might shock you, but you don't have to have a global monopoly on making bad design choices in order to do so.
• Bognar 2y ago
  Aborting threads has issues in most languages. Timing out an operation however is a solved problem with many safe implementations.
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