"don't block the ui thread" is a pretty classic aphorism in any language.
Hmm. "Fearless concurrency" and the flagship examples are... background threads for search and not freezing the UI?
That is GUI programming 101 from the Win32 era. Every Tcl/Tk app, every GTK app, every Qt app has been doing this for 25+ years.
If Rust's concurrency story were genuinely revolutionary, you would expect examples like:
- Lock-free data structures that are actually hard to get right
- Complex parallel algorithms with non-trivial synchronization
- Work-stealing schedulers with provable correctness
Instead we have "we run grep in a background thread"?
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Hmm. "Fearless concurrency" and the flagship examples are... background threads for search and not freezing the UI?
That is GUI programming 101 from the Win32 era. Every Tcl/Tk app, every GTK app, every Qt app has been doing this for 25+ years.
If Rust's concurrency story were genuinely revolutionary, you would expect examples like:
- Lock-free data structures that are actually hard to get right
- Complex parallel algorithms with non-trivial synchronization
- Work-stealing schedulers with provable correctness
Instead we have "we run grep in a background thread"?