Re: Threads across programming languages

On Thu, 2 May 2024 13:22:39 +0200, Bonita Montero wrote:

Am 02.05.2024 um 08:48 schrieb Lawrence D'Oliveiro:

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The normal, non-comedy way of handling this is to have the task await
something variously called a “future” or “promise”: when that object is
marked as completed, then the task is automatically woken again to
fulfil its purpose.

 
The problem with a future and a promise is that in most languages you
can't wait for multiple futures at once to have out of order completion.

Of course you can. Any decent event-loop framework will provide this
capability. Python’s asyncio does. I use it all the time.