[bryanlarsen]

Of course you have to lock a mutex. You'd have to do that no matter the language, right?

And that's what I meant by verbose/ugly. Each of those steps is usually an if let / else error. None of those steps are hard, but you have to do them every time.

[adastra22]

Oh, plenty of people access shared state without proper locks all the time. Even experienced developers.

[bryanlarsen]

Heh. You're pedantically correct, the best kind. I meant "have to" in terms of "for correct operation you must" not "the compiler forces you to" since the latter isn't a thing in some languages.