I haven’t actually seen it in the wild yet, just talked about in technical talks from engineers at different studios, but I’m interested in designs in which there isn’t a traditional main thread anymore.

Instead, everything is a job, and even what is considered the main thread is no longer an orchestration thread, but just another worker after some nominal set up between scaffolding enough threads, usually minus one, to all serve as lockless, work-stealing worker threads.

Conventional async programming relies too heavily on a critical main thread.

I think it’s been so successful though, that unfortunately we’ll be stuck with it for much longer than some of us will want.

It reminds me of how many years of inefficient programming we have been stuck with because cache-unfriendly traditional object-oriented programming was so successful.