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[73.170.229.122]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id o3sm3411688pgk.21.2020.03.31.12.59.52 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:59:52 -0700 (PDT) In-reply-to: <87bloddwbz.fsf@gmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4864:20::62a X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:246160 Archived-At: I would love to see Clojure's core.async ported to elisp. On Mon 30 Mar 2020 at 20:42, Zach Shaftel wrote: > I'm wondering if there's interest in a library which wraps threads, > mutices and condition-variables into higher level constructs like > futures, readers-writer locks, agents, concurrent queues etc. I'm > considering this as a project for Summer of Code, but not sure if > it's something others would want included with Emacs. > > I can say from personal experience that I don't bother making > programs concurrent in languages with only primitives like mutices > and semaphores, but in Clojure I'll happily spin up agents to > coordinate work. My hope is that the concision and built-in safety > provided by these abstractions could encourage more authors to make > their ELisp programs concurrent. > > Thoughts? > > -Zach