> The lack of fan-out makes it awkward to express combinations where one sender feeds many receivers. In 1970, avoiding garbage collection was a practical neces

> The lack of fan-out makes it awkward to express combinations where one sender feeds many receivers. In 1970, avoiding garbage collection was a practical necessity, but today garbage collection is available in most programming workflows and fan-out could be implemented much more easily through message copying rather than consumption. Fanout has precisely zero dependency on GC. For example ‘tee’ has been around for decades and it can copy io streams just fine. There has been some effort to built fanout shells too. With a discussion in HN earlier this month on one called dgsh https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45425298 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45425298 Edit: I agree with other comments that this feels like AI slop