Concurrency as first-class citizen

[tinganho]

I'm just interested if you got any plans of implementing concurrency to TypeScript?

[DanielRosenwasser]

any plans of implementing concurrency

That can mean a lot of things - you mean like #1664?

[tinganho]

@DanielRosenwasser I was more meaning multi-threading, to be able to spawn processes directly without requiring any library.

[tinganho]

@DanielRosenwasser and also have an effective way of message passing. Ala go style.

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {

    // Create a new channel with `make(chan val-type)`.
    // Channels are typed by the values they convey.
    messages := make(chan string)

    // _Send_ a value into a channel using the `channel <-`
    // syntax. Here we send `"ping"`  to the `messages`
    // channel we made above, from a new goroutine.
    go func() { messages <- "ping" }()

    // The `<-channel` syntax _receives_ a value from the
    // channel. Here we'll receive the `"ping"` message
    // we sent above and print it out.
    msg := <-messages
    fmt.Println(msg)
}

[tinganho]

This is how spider lang (a compile to JS lang) have implemented their channels http://spiderlang.org/#channels

[DanielRosenwasser]

See my answer on #1686.

In general, I don't think anything has changed since then. We don't really try to supply a facility to extend runtime capabilities, so things like that generally fall out of scope.