3 ms·

So what I personally find interesting about this code is how it just... asychronously kicks off arbitrary functions. It reads like scripting except it isn't. I

So what I personally find interesting about this code is how it just... asychronously kicks off arbitrary functions. It reads like scripting except it isn't. I ask out of curiosity: are there other statically typed languages where you can do stuff like this? Java has Futures, but those are far more heavyweight. Clojure has concurrency constructs which are pretty close, but Clojure is dynamic. I only know a little bit of Haskell, so there might be something like this in there.

thebigshane 14y ago
C# now has `async` and `await`, not the same thing, but similar. Also I'm sure there's about a dozen C++ libraries that will do it.
throwaway54-762 14y ago
Rust (another "systems language of the future") has a lightweight syntax for spawned "tasks", I think. But I'm far from a Rust expert.
- burntsushi 14y ago
  This is true. Rust also provides more compile time safety (a lot more actually), but it comes at the cost of complex semantics.