This is really good. I like the way the features are presented as incremental development. It would be neat to see diffs for each increment showing what code needed to be added or changed for the new functionality.
I’d like to see (eventually) examples of composing tasks from multiple modules. Do the tasks have to use a common nursery? If a concurrent API hides its nursery from clients, can its APIs be composed? Will they support error handling and
cancellation?
Thanks,
Tom
From: John Belmonte <john@neggie.net>
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2022 7:09 AM
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Subject: Re: [ANN] article: Structured concurrency and Lua
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I've posted part 2 of the series:
Notably, it's demonstrating error tracebacks that span multiple coroutines, and the ability to catch an error from any intermediate coroutine along the way-- just as you would with a call stack that didn't spawn coroutines.
I'm sharing a draft article "Structured concurrency and Lua (part 1)".
After the long road of lobbying for scope exit hooks in Lua (begun around the time of the Lua Gems book, in 2008), it's been nice to finally have the feature and apply it to problems. What I couldn't imagine in 2008, however, is that one
would ever want to yield from scope exit. But Lua can do that now too, enabling interesting possibilities, such as the structured concurrency presented in the article.
Feedback is welcome here or on github. (Encouragement also, if you'd like to see the series continue.)
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