Jun 3, 2008

PLT Scheme Turns 13

I'm glad to see PLT Scheme continue to thrive and strike out on its own in a way that both supports the R6RS standard and continues to innovate. Relegating mutable pairs to second class status last year was a delightful move. Now if only they would get rid of shared state concurrency I'd be a total convert.

2 comments:

Robby Findler said...

We have good CML support! Can I consider you converted? ;)

Josh said...

Thanks for the pointer! I'll read up on it, but my main question would be whether PLT Schems just supports CML-style concurrency or if it actively prevents shared state between threads? And are threads lightweight (like Erlang processes) or heavyweight (live Java Threads)?