Exploring Structured Concurrency and Its Parallels with Imperative Synchronous Languages
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Summary
The article discusses Structured Concurrency (SC), a concept supporting nested coroutines with tied lifetimes, and highlights its similarities with imperative synchronous languages (ISLs) like Esterel. It mentions existing libraries (Dill, Trio, Effection) and language mechanisms in Swift and Kotlin that implement SC. The author notes the lack of bridges between ISLs and SC, despite ISLs' long-standing research on lexically-scoped tasks with safe cancellation.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledStructured Concurrency (SC) supports nested coroutines with tied lifetimes.
The similarities with Esterel and derived imperative synchronous languages (ISLs) is noteworthy.
Research in ISLs dates back to the early 80s, and constantly reinforces the idea of lexically-scoped tasks with safe cancellation.
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