On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 10:31 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

>
> Hmm, I’m not convinced about the whole threads-for-convenience approach
> à la Java.  (I think the ideal is a single-threaded event loop; of
> course we want to avoid IoC, and this is where FRP or monads come in.)
>

It is instead for this case. It's not that you have to handle thousands of
connections. Threads simplify a lot compared to an event loop in C/C++.
Don't be fooled by the trends, it doesn't apply here.