[fulafel]

IME many programmers think having to parallelise your code by hand is a tedious and error-prone part of programming that increases complexity for silly reasons and distracts you from the application domain, and a failure of programming language / compiler technology.

[dom0]

I admit I don't have a big problem with parallel coding often being considered something for experts/consultants/wizards. Keeps the prices up :)

[chrisseaton]

It doesn't matter how much of an expert you are if your algorithm fundamentally isn't parallel though. We just don't know how to parallelise some things.

[dom0]

Fully agreed, but often these can be solved by reviewing the overall (business) problem.

E.g. maybe it's hard / not worth it to process a file in parallel, but maybe the most frequent use case needs to process more than one file and files can be processed in parallel with much less work.