Stackless goes Limbo

[Christian Tismer]

Donn Cave wrote:
[about C, sys-> etc]

Well, this is all not relevant for me.
I'm not interested in the language, only
in the multitasking aspects.

> The important thing to me is that the system looks like it would work
> well for modular function libraries, thanks mostly to the garbage
> collection storage model, and who knows, maybe with less function call
> overhead.  The thing I miss here is exceptions - nothing like that?
> Maybe I skimmed it too fast.

I didn't find them, either. And in fact, they give me
some headaches for Stackless.

> I think I like the channels.  Not sure I like the Unicode strings.
> I wouldn't mind trying it out, if it ever escapes from Inferno.

It is the channels idea what I want to borrow. Nothing else.

thanks & cheers - chris

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