Rob Pike discusses concurrency in programming languages: CSP, channels, the role of coroutines, Plan 9, MapReduce and Sawzall, processes vs threads in Unix, and more programming language history.

Memory models offer the formal frameworks that define how operations on memory are executed in environments with concurrent processes. By establishing rules for the ordering and visibility of ...

Multithreaded programming could be about to get easier for Java developers under a plan currently incubating in the OpenJDK community. The structured concurrency proposal would introduce a library ...