imo function colouring as a problem is akin to calling it road colouring when there’s a separate bike lane you can’t drive your car on. It’s not a problem to be solved, it’s the whole point!
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>he tells me his language has an exciting new design for asynchronous io that solves the function colouring problem
>ask if it’s just threads or something genuinely novel
>he doesn’t understand
>he says it’s a good asynchronous runtime miss
>read his blog post
>it’s threads✧✦Catherine✦✧ repeated this.