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mattwparas / steel

An embedded scheme interpreter in Rust
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Support native threads properly #98

Open mattwparas opened 11 months ago

mattwparas commented 11 months ago

Tracking issue for native threads

Right now, threads are created by creating a new runtime instance on another thread, where the entire runtime environment is copied and moved over, which is error prone since some values cannot be moved.

Error reporting is also poor on threads - they can error on creation and during runtime, and it will be difficult to know.

It also isn't particularly documented - so this is at least somewhere where progress on it can be documented.

mattwparas commented 10 months ago

Native thread support landed in #124 - documentation is coming. They are akin to rackets places, however perhaps a bit more ergonomic to get started with. There are surely bugs that exist :smile: