Day 3: The Red Pill
Most of you have heard it before. In the matrix, take the blue pill, and you can continue to live in blissful ignorance. Take the red pill, and your eyes are open to reality. Sometimes, reality hurts.
We have a whole industry slamming blue pills like a preacher’s kid in Amsterdam. Concurrency is hard, so we punt. We add mutable state, so our programs collide when we run them concurrently. Our functions and methods have side effects, so we can’t prove correctness or predict their outcomes. We use threads with shared state rather than shared-nothing processes for performance, so we have to do extra work to protect each piece of code.
The result is chaos. Concurrency hurts, not because it is inherently difficult but because ...
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