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by cottsak 1359 days ago
sigh

how did we all survive before async UI... ¬‿¬

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By building, say, cooperatively scheduled systems of active objects (actors) accepting arbitrary messages Smalltalk style, like Windows 1. Or preemptively scheduled systems of typed ones, like Symbian. It’s not like the classic approaches are that much simpler, is my point.
By lots of 'static and Rc.