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by vacuity 541 days ago
The issue is that logically correct algorithms can indeed be made, but actually making them work in real conditions is its own problem. It's not necessarily wrong to explore more exotic algorithms, but a focus on algorithms that people should actually use in their given situations seems higher priority. We should be working on bringing useful concurrency to our programs right now.

And while I will agree that mutexes and the like are useful in their own right, they are not the most fundamental for understanding concurrency.