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Concurrency in Haskell: Fast, Simple, Correct

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193 points ingve | 2 comments | 14 Apr 25 10:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.424s | source
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wodenokoto ◴[17 Apr 25 10:26 UTC] No.43714946[source]▶
I don't know how async is in other languages but I find Pythons async incredibly difficult to use, and I kinda feel validated about how poor chatGPT is at it as well.

Is it because it is just a very hard thing, or is it because its a synchronous language, with async bolted on? (I'm talking about a purely language point of view, not from a python VM / GIL point of view)

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1. Starlevel004 ◴[17 Apr 25 11:14 UTC] No.43715191[source]▶
It's because ``asyncio`` is a dogwater library that's barely functional and full of footguns. The ecosystem is about the same quality too.
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2. gpderetta ◴[17 Apr 25 14:15 UTC] No.43717193[source]▶
Indeed, as much as I dislike async in general, asyncio is its own special hell.