alt Hacker NewsSince at least Windows 3.1 we all know that cooperative multitasking is a bad idea. But we see a lot of developers use it, even Rust developers who should know better.
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odo1242 • yesterday at 3:31 PM
Cooperative multitasking isn’t universally a bad idea (in fact, Rust supports it)
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JavaScript's execution model uses cooperative concurrency to avoid a tons of data races, preemptive non-parallel concurrency would make all web development incredibly harder