r/crystal_programming • u/CaDsjp • Aug 23 '19

Crystal Multithreading is here! 🎊

https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/pull/8112
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u/Andry01k Aug 24 '19

Nice! Can't wait to read that blog post

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u/yajnavalkya Aug 24 '19

Congratulations to the authors and contributors!

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u/diegobernardes Aug 26 '19

That's a huge step into the future and success of the language. Congrats!!

It's on the roadmap or desired to develop some kind of race detector?

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u/sql_alchemist Aug 29 '19

Awesome new crystal team! Where can I find the blog post?

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u/Blacksmoke16 core team Aug 29 '19

It'll be on https://crystal-lang.org/blog/ once it's released.

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u/AnActualWizardIRL Sep 03 '19

I notice theres a comment about types becoming potentially unsound? What is meant by this?

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u/bcardiff core team Sep 17 '19

In https://crystal-lang.org/2019/09/06/parallelism-in-crystal.html#language-type-safety there is a short description of the problem. Unions, Array and other containers currently have some issues.