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by neonsunset 697 days ago
"Green Threads" as implemented in Java is a solution that solves only a single problem - blocking/multiplexing.

It does not enable easy concurrency and task/future composition the way C#/JS/Rust do, which offer strictly better and more comprehensive model.
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za3faran 696 days ago
Structured concurrency[1] offers task composition and more.

[1] https://openjdk.org/jeps/453

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he0001 696 days ago
What do you mean? It implements the Future/Task interface and you can definitely use that. In fact you can’t tell the difference from a virtual thread vs a platform one, and it’s available everywhere. I for one thinks it’s much easier to use than the async/await pattern as I don’t need any special syntax to use it.
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