6 posts tagged ‘Concurrency’
Forked
mjtsai,
Drew McCormack (Mastodon): I’m launching a new Swift framework called Forked for working with shared data, both on a single device, and across many.[…]The merging that @ForkedModel provides is pretty powerful. It does property-wise merging of structs, and if you attach the @Merged attribute, you can add your own custom merging logic, or use the […]
Amazon S3 Adds Put-If-Match (Compare-and-Swap)
AWS (via Hacker News): Amazon S3 can now perform conditional writes that evaluate if an object is unmodified before updating it. This helps you coordinate simultaneous writes to the same object and prevents multiple concurrent writers from unintentionally overwriting the object without knowing the state of its content. You can use this capability by providing […]
Swift Vision: Improving the Approachability of Data-Race Safety
Holly Borla (via Mastodon, forum): This document lays out several potential paths for improving the usability of Swift 6, especially in simple situations where users aren’t intending to use concurrency at all. […] A key tenet of our thinking in this vision is that we want to drastically reduce the number of explicit concurrency annotations […]
How to Control the World
Brandon Williams and Stephen Celis (2018, via Christian Tietze): While unconventional, we hope that it’s obvious that this solution of controlling dependencies is superior to the traditional solutions in use today. It also gives us an opportunity to reevaluate deep-seated beliefs we may have. We should continuously question our assumptions. In this case, we found […]
Dave Cutler Interview
Dave Plummer (via Hacker News): Dave Cutler is a seminal figure in computer science, renowned for his contributions to operating systems. Born in 1942, he played pivotal roles in the development of several OSes, most notably VMS for Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and Windows NT for Microsoft. Cutler’s design principles emphasize performance, reliability, and scalability. […]
Moving on From Xojo
Sam Rowlands: Since 1998, I’ve built every single Mac app with the Xojo development tool (Aka Real Studio and REALbasic).Over the last ¾ of a decade, Xojo started ignoring bugs, feature requests and industry trends. New features felt rushed, incomplete and sometimes unusable. Dark mode support and concurrency are two prime examples. Something is clearly […]