2026/04/14

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2026-04-14 14:07:20 +0000 <[exa]> (btw lol, I see the blog of tomas :D he's sitting literally in the office next to mine :D :D )
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2026-04-14 14:06:53 +0000 <[exa]> (me included tbh)
2026-04-14 14:06:45 +0000 <[exa]> yeah some folks are actually a little sensitive to the whole .NET blob
2026-04-14 14:02:25 +0000 <gentauro> F# gets a lot of "bad publi" (cos of MS ownership) but it's actually a pretty good language
2026-04-14 14:02:02 +0000uli-fem(~uli-fem@203.87.114.209)
2026-04-14 14:01:10 +0000 <gentauro> oh yeah, and the type-providers (they was afterwards mimiced by Idris, David Christensen)
2026-04-14 14:00:41 +0000 <gentauro> some good stuff has actually came out of F# (missing module functors though): computation expressions (monadic syntax), code quoatations (typed and untyped lambda calculus), units of measure (tag primitive types). He also had a brilliant collaborator that made some novel and groundbreaking research: https://tomasp.net/coeffects/
2026-04-14 13:58:38 +0000 <[exa]> oh cool then
2026-04-14 13:58:32 +0000 <gentauro> yeah
2026-04-14 13:58:26 +0000 <[exa]> the rest is F# right?
2026-04-14 13:58:01 +0000 <gentauro> it seems like it didn't went their way, so they ended up portin OCaml to .NET and, the rest is history :)
2026-04-14 13:57:58 +0000karenw(~karenw@user/karenw) (Quit: Deep into that darkness peering...)
2026-04-14 13:57:37 +0000 <gentauro> [exa]: Don Syme was hired by MS to do his PhD thesis on how to "port" Haskell to the .NET platform working together with Cambridge University
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2026-04-14 13:46:36 +0000 <[exa]> (who's don syme)
2026-04-14 13:46:14 +0000 <[exa]> yeah the count of the green threads isn't a big issue, the resource exhaustion that happens if each of the threads starts nibbling is the issue
2026-04-14 13:45:17 +0000 <gentauro> and lets not talk Erlang/Elixir
2026-04-14 13:45:04 +0000 <gentauro> but he showed how F# easily could handle a mil green-threads
2026-04-14 13:44:44 +0000 <gentauro> [exa]: I recall Don Syme had a MS blog post (his blog is gone since he was "moved" to GitHub Next)
2026-04-14 13:43:20 +0000 <[exa]> like, can the usual kernel keep 1M TCP connections open?
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2026-04-14 13:40:16 +0000 <gentauro> thx :)
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2026-04-14 13:32:11 +0000 <[exa]> gentauro: 1M is possible for sure, even more I'd say; the main concern is that at that point I don't really see an engineeringly correct use-case for that
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2026-04-14 13:25:27 +0000Digit(~user@user/digit) Digit
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2026-04-14 13:16:49 +0000leppard(~noOne@ipservice-092-208-182-236.092.208.pools.vodafone-ip.de) Inline
2026-04-14 13:15:41 +0000 <Leary> gentauro: It's possible, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea. I rather suspect it will induce a bunch of GC overhead you don't want, which could probably be avoided by some kind of work queue.
2026-04-14 13:15:33 +0000 <mauke> (number of threads, I mean)
2026-04-14 13:15:25 +0000 <mauke> it definitely went into the 100,000s
2026-04-14 13:15:06 +0000 <mauke> I did a linear bucket chain of threads connected by MVars, maybe 15 years ago?
2026-04-14 13:14:19 +0000 <mauke> I don't remember what my record was
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2026-04-14 13:11:29 +0000 <gentauro> would it be possible to spawn 1m concurrent `https://hackage-content.haskell.org/package/async-2.2.6/docs/Control-Concurrent-Async.html` (green threads right?) as we can do in Rust/dotnet: https://hez2010.github.io/async-runtimes-benchmarks-2024/take2.html
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