@KirinDave well, you're the one talking about messy syntax...
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@bascule I think that Node.js at least has a competent and comparatively low-overhead implementation of closures. -
@KirinDave yeah, JRuby still has some work left to do optimizing blocks with InDy, I believe... -
@bascule Node.js has a similar problem to Ruby in that its relevance is overstated and proponents cheerfully ignore reality to defend it. -
@KirinDave I think the relevance of languages will increasingly become dependent on their ability to do multicore programming. Node can't... -
@bascule Actually there is some fascinating work. When I am back home I'll send it to you. -
@KirinDave web workers would be an option, unfortunately Node implements them as processes o_O -
@bascule I think it needs a new var keyword, varT, that does STM on those cells. The provisional impl was with locks on every var. Not fast.
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