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On Sat, Mar 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM Edmond Dantes <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Colored functions completely preclude a possible future thread-based
> implementation of concurrency.
> >
>
> I can assure you that colored functions are neither part of this RFC nor *any
> future ones* from me. And it's not because it's my decision it's rather
> the language itself and the existing codebase that dictate the
> implementation. Moreover, we already have extensive experience with Swoole,
> where developers’ reactions are well known. And Swoole is essentially PHP +
> coroutines.
>
> I can recall the maintainer’s words from memory: it turned out that
> developers don’t want to use special functions instead of standard ones.
>
> I can confirm this from my own experience. For example, adapting a library
> for RabbitMQ required changing only 10-20 lines, and overall, it worked
> quickly without tests.
>
> The true strength of any language is not in its syntax. The main strength
> is its infrastructure.
> Even if a language is poor in terms of development quality, if it has a
> massive infrastructure, people will use it.
>
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> Ed.
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