[spacemanaki]

Would it really have taken off by now? I really don't know much about STM, and I know there is no one canonical STM, but it's often compared to garbage collection. How long did it take for garbage collection to take off? Wikipedia claims GC was invented in 1959 and STM in 1995.

edited to correct the date

[nickik]

I think we need it but its just like with GC. You cant just not worry about it any more. Developers need to learn about STMs. How the work, what there problems are and they need to learn programming with these implementations STMs.