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my-next-accounttoday at 9:18 AM2 repliesview on HN

You can have it all in the vast majority of cases. It just requires a lot of work. See: The Hotspot JVM.


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officialchickentoday at 10:06 AM

Totally agree; we're approaching a time where a single processor has hundreds of threads - it's a conceptual limitation of the author's preferred language that was never considered due to it's ancient 75-ish year old design. "Use the right tool for the job" has never been more important, versus "I have a hammer, everything is a nail"

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worthless-trashtoday at 10:54 AM

Or, almost no work, see erlang gen_server.