[xolve]

I agree about threads a lot! Process creation and handling APIs e.g. fork, signals, exec etc. are great when working with single threaded processes and command line, but they have so many caveats when working with threads.

A paper by Microsoft on how viral fork is and why its presence prevents a better process model: https://www.cs.bu.edu/~jappavoo/Resources/Papers/fork-hotos1...

[rbanffy]

True, starting a process and waiting until all its threads complete is a pain on Linux but I don’t remember it being less painful on Windows (although the last time I tried that on Windows was with Windows 2000).