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Channel-based programming, perhaps? From Go style to Erlang shared-nothing, those approaches offer some of the properties you’re looking for.

Or maybe the holy grail hasn’t been created yet in this category: a compiler that can transform arbitrary computations or expressions of computational goals into their maximally parallel form, where locks etc. are compiler output artifacts a la assembly instructions rather than things programmers regularly interact with. Some academic languages and frameworks have made strides in this direction, but I don’t know of any that have caught on.



> Or maybe the holy grail hasn’t been created yet in this category: a compiler that can transform arbitrary computations or expressions of computational goals into their maximally parallel form…

I am not an expert at concurrency, so forgive my ignorance. If such a compiler existed, wouldn’t its purpose be defeated by external code? As in, someone provides a library whose concurrency properties are unknown.


What do you think of this https://github.com/HigherOrderCO/Bend ?




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