Comment by globular-toast 3 days ago
Do you really need to reinvent the wheel every time for parallel workloads? Just learn GNU parallel and write single-threaded code.
Concurrency in general isn't about parallelism. It's just about doing multiple things at the same time.
I'm sorry. It's the trauma of preaching the virtues of crude but efficient concurrency and similar multiprocessing for many years, in many workplaces, and only rarely meeting anything but distrust, disinterest or uninformed rebuttals like "OS processes are very heavy, can't do concurrency that way".
However, it's a real problem that 'beginner languages' like Python and Javascript doesn't readily do multithread computation, something which has been the default on personal computers for quite a while now and available for at least twenty years.
GNU Parallel is really neat, software that's so good it's boring. Closing in on being a quarter century old by now, no? I remember first reading about it in 2003 maybe?
I've also used 'fork in Picolisp a lot for this kind of thing, and also Elixir, which arguably has much nicer pipes.
But hey, it's good that Python after like thirty years or so is trying to get decent concurrency. Eventually people that use it as a first language might learn about such things too.