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Is the lack of multithreading support in emacs a dealbreaker for you? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I like the lack of multithreading because it makes programming Emacs extensions simpler.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yep - there's a reason asyncio event loop programming is popular in Python/JS/Rust etc.. People act like it's a crusty old inferior technique to the delights of multi-threading. In reality it often keeps things much simpler, is very powerful, and only leads to blocking behavior when it's badly coded.