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0 pointssteveklabnik10y ago0 comments

Every one I know of has regretted it, and seen it as an antipattern. For example, Java way back in 1.5: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/guide/misc/threadPr...

I think Erlang might be okay with it, because "this thread can fail at any time" is a core value of Erlang. But it's an exception.

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gregwebs10y ago

Haskell has killThread, which rather than being an anti-pattern is often used as an effective way to accurately enforce a timeout on a thread. This functionality seems like it would be very difficult to achieve with most other runtimes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11370004

steveklabnikOP10y ago

You have a sibling comment elsewhere in the thread which disagrees; I'll leave that argument to that sub-thread.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

0 pointssteveklabnik10y ago0 comments

Every one I know of has regretted it, and seen it as an antipattern. For example, Java way back in 1.5: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/guide/misc/threadPr...

I think Erlang might be okay with it, because "this thread can fail at any time" is a core value of Erlang. But it's an exception.

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gregwebs10y ago

steveklabnikOP10y ago

You have a sibling comment elsewhere in the thread which disagrees; I'll leave that argument to that sub-thread.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse