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Which programming language is hard to understand? (suppo.fi)
submitted 11 months ago by Albin7326@suppo.fi to c/programming@programming.dev
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[โ€“] fubo@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In shell languages, concurrency is easy and everything else is hard.

[โ€“] nous@programming.dev 13 points 11 months ago

Concurrency is not easy if you need the output and exit status of the commands. Fire and forget concurrency/parallelism is easy in any language. It is when you need to sync state up that it becomes hard.