[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 174276] JSC should support threads in JS

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174276

--- Comment #4 from Filip Pizlo <fpizlo at apple.com> ---
(In reply to Asbjørn Ulsberg from comment #1)
> While I'm not opposed to the idea of concurrency in JavaScript, I think the
> proposed API is archaic and quite frankly; horrible. It looks like the
> proposed API is heavily influenced by Java and while java.lang.Thread worked
> okay when it was devised over 20 years ago, it is hardly the best take on
> concurrency in 2017.
> 
> Instead of basing JavaScript's concurrency model on Java's old API with
> explicit Thread objects, lock objects and complicated signalling mechanisms,
> a modern look on concurrency would be something more akin to Rust's with
> object ownership and implicit concurrency built in.
> 
> Please take this as a praise of the idea of concurrency in JavaScript, but
> also a nudge to review the concrete API proposal and base it on a more
> modern take on concurrency than java.lang.Thread.

Religious debates about API is not a great use of bugs.webkit.org.

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