alt Hacker NewsHmm. "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"?
When a basic question is asked, a basic answer is given. I didn’t say that I think that’s the coolest or most interesting answer. It’s just the most obvious, straightforward one. It’s not even about Rust!
(And also, I don’t think things like work stealing queues are relevant to editors, but maybe that’s my own ignorance.)