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1. 1.▲
   by npe 4y ago

   I'd argue that Go is explicitly sociological. Most of the novel ideas in Go (process calculi/guarded commands in a concurrent language) were originally embedded in Cardelli and Pike's Squeak back in the 80s. The rest is tryin
2. 2.▲
   by npe 4y ago

   The minute you put language constructs in the base syntax and runtime of the language, it's a lot more than friction. Love it or hate it, Go is inextricably tied to CSP.
3. 3.▲
   by npe 4y ago

   It matters a lot IMO. Most systems programming languages can implement whatever concurrency primitives you care to use, but most people default to whatever is provided by the OS/language because concurrency is hard. Having first-class
4. 4.▲
   by npe 4y ago

   As I understand it, he's talking about select/alt (i.e. guarded commands from CSP) being a native feature of the language rather than callback-based approaches. It's possible to implement CSP channels in most languages, but t