[pron]

If you want to run operations in parallel and then "join" them, you need some joining mechanism. A fiber itself can be joined and return a value, so in Quasar, Fiber implements Future. But that's semantics: with fibers, if you want to run operations in parallel, you spawn more fibers; if you then want to join those operations -- you join the fibers.

Of course you can have long-running fibers that interact with one another through channels. See: http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2014/02/20/reactive/

[miiike]

Thanks, this is the kind of answer I was looking for. I'll have a read once I'm on a bigger screen.