Ask HN: Besides Go, what languages are muti-threading "in background"?

Post by pjmlp » Sat, Mar 30, 2024, 2:04 PM UTC

stanlogin wrote: post #9

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No, it really is. I've got experience with multiple languages / multithreading approaches and could argue it means 3 different things. I don't know what others think the question is about.

OK. It's difficult to you.

Post by stanlogin » Sat, Mar 30, 2024, 2:49 PM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #11

stanlogin wrote: post #9

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OK. It's difficult to you.

OP is right. In Go you always need a keyword (go something) to start a co-routine, well, in C# you do exactly the same with Task.Run(something), while it also supports async/await. Additionally, LINQ can make use of background execution via PLINQ, Dataflow Tasks allow to use a DSL to orchestrate executions that happen in the background, the early BeginInvoke()/EndInvoke() can make use of threads or not, and for all o…

Post by stanlogin » Sat, Mar 30, 2024, 5:23 PM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #14

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When you said "(go something)", you are talking about different thing.

Nope, there are no goroutines without go something, other than runtime stuff like the GC.

Post by pjmlp » Sat, Mar 30, 2024, 6:04 PM UTC

stanlogin wrote: post #15

pjmlp wrote: post #14

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Nope, there are no goroutines without go something, other than runtime stuff like the GC.

When you said goroutine, you are talking about different thing.