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simonask • yesterday at 4:23 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I am, but you’d be surprised. All of the single-threaded languages are fine, for example. Very few languages are actually low-level enough to allow data races. C# and Java go to great lengths to avoid it.

Race conditions in general are another matter, and aren’t generally considered a requirement (though you can certainly create nasty bugs).

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shikck200 • yesterday at 4:30 PM

I have not written a line of Java in 15 years. But im pretty sure Java has threads? Once you have threads, you pretty much have data races.

        Thread a = new Thread(() -> x++);
        Thread b = new Thread(() -> x++);

        a.start();
        b.start();
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