Go provides microthreads, which are both concurrent and parallel, and extremely lightweight.
Libtask provides concurrency. It does not provide parallelism. Parallelism is important.
No. I just implement libtask/channel.c in Lua.
It does not provide parallelism. Parallelism is important.
I'm doing it in pure Lua. Lua doesn't use multiple OS threads. Doing channels _across_ Lua contexts would be an interesting thing.
Lua doesn't use multiple OS threads.
I didn't know that. That's really disappointing. Parallelism really is important. It sounds like it's possible, just really awkward: http://kotisivu.dnainternet.net/askok/bin/lanes/
Kudos on making a nice CSP library for Lua though. In my opinion, CSP is a good paradigm for high-level concurrent and parallel processing. Hopefully one day Lua will add reasonable parallelism.