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by kbolino 699 days ago
> Haskell threads can be preempted externally - this allows you to ensure they never leak. Vs a goroutine that can just spin forever if it doesn't explicitly yield.

Goroutines are preemptible by the runtime (since https://go.dev/doc/go1.14#runtime) but they're still not addressable or killable through the language itself.

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The GHC runtime has lots of cool concurrency features.

Async exceptions as a way to pass messages (and kill threads!)

Allocation limits for threads.

Software Transactional Memory.