[Haskell-cafe] New GHC Features for 7.10.1 and Beyond

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Michael Snoyman wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 8:07 AM, Kazu Yamamoto <kazu at iij.ad.jp> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Gershom,
> >
> > > We've also seen a lot of interest in distribution and cloud computing.
> > > From the articles I've read, efficient concurrent programming involves
> > > using node.js, so I think we should put some work into writing a
> > > new-new-new-IO Manager built on top of this technology.
> >
> > As a member of Mio developers, I don't understand this sentence. Would
> > you concretely explain what kind of node.js technologies should be
> > taken into new-new-new-IO Manager?
> >
> >
> It's really simple: node.js is webscale, Mio is not. I'm sorry, but you
> simply didn't do a good enough job making sure that random packets were
> lost when sending network traffic, or that writing data to disk may
> sporadically fail. Better luck next time.

I think Michael about sums it up.

Erik
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