Comment on My Golang UI package: lessons learned about threading and plans for the futureComments−glutamate12ySome time ago, Joe Armstrong wrote a thread-based binding to the X11 protocol called ex11. Every widget would run in its own thread and listen for messages. I keep on thinking about implementing something like that for the web.ex11 is available on Github (https://github.com/baryluk/ex11) and there is a presentation (http://www.erlang.org/workshop/2004/ex11.pdf)−arethuza12yFor some reason that reminded me of NeWS, which I vaguely remember had co-operative multitasking of threads within the display server itself.Object oriented, multi-threaded PostScript FTW!http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS
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Some time ago, Joe Armstrong wrote a thread-based binding to the X11 protocol called ex11. Every widget would run in its own thread and listen for messages. I keep on thinking about implementing something like that for the web.
ex11 is available on Github (https://github.com/baryluk/ex11) and there is a presentation (http://www.erlang.org/workshop/2004/ex11.pdf)
For some reason that reminded me of NeWS, which I vaguely remember had co-operative multitasking of threads within the display server itself.
Object oriented, multi-threaded PostScript FTW!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS