I’ve just started learning about thread safety. This is making me code a lot more defensively, perhaps too defensively.
Would using a functional language like Erlang completely rid me of this concern?
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I’ve just started learning about thread safety. This is making me code a lot more defensively, perhaps too defensively.
Would using a functional language like Erlang completely rid me of this concern?
in Erlang the unit of execution state isn’t a thread, but a process. yeah, it’s a lightweight kind of process implemented on top of threads; but it’s more like a process than a thread.
The main point is that processes don’t share state, they pass messages; while threads share everything by default, and have to arbitrate to avoid chaos.
thus, you don’t need thread safety since you’re not working with threads.