alt Hacker NewsParallelism is like data structures. There are many different ways to do it and people should not be trying to do it themselves in a bespoke way on every program.
Having one way built into the language is like a language using a hash map for everything. It might be convenient when it works, but the idea that there is one best way is only a little better than people fumbling their way through it from scratch.
I agree with a lot of this sentiment but it assumes a level of stability so that standardization can be effective. Standardization before stabilization has the potential to cripple efficiency with inefficient abstractions.
One benefit of a programming paradigm is that it can allow for an increase in speed of software development at a marginal cost of run-time efficiency, but if the paradigm is so out of step with the underlying hardware, the run-time efficiencies can be orders of magnitude slower than a bespoke way.
Standardization and abstraction are most effective when there is data about which bespoke ways work the best. Choosing standardization and abstraction before experimenting on the solution space rarely works well.