tiny_coro
Languages and libraries
coroutine runtime
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How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
0 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 0 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.
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What people liked
Interesting comparison to history of coroutines and state machines
From 2 comments
Any Fortran folks around ? Since old Fortran does not have function pointers I used to wonder how does one write gradient descent routine for a user defined function in Fortran.…
srean on HNThat is a fascinating comparison! History really does rhyme. What you described—suspending with a flag and resuming with new values—is surprisingly similar to how the C++20…
lixiasky on HN
Objections
Commenter prefers multitasking over coroutines and async approaches
From 1 comment
This looks cool, but says it's simpler than Seastar. Seastar last time I looked at it was fairly simple, but didn't use coroutines at all. Instead it used a futures/promise…
throwaway81523 on HN
Requests
Suggestions to explore Felix and other coroutine-based schedulers
From 2 comments
Coroutine idea is very old. I am not 100% sure but they were heavily used in Telecom applications. It's easier in C and old C++ if one can drop down to assembly to switch between…
srean on HN> Unfortunately, my previous GitHub account got flagged/shadowbanned Oh! That sucks big time. Hope you had a local repo of everything. BTW I don't think your tone is formal, just…
srean on HN
Questions
Why the maker's previous account was flagged and what happened to the earlier project
From 1 comment
BTW what happened to your baby wireshark ? Also, do you use ChatGPT to frame your responses ? Nothing wrong if you do, but people might notice the tone and wonder.
srean on HN
Alternatives named
Seastar
From 1 comment
This looks cool, but says it's simpler than Seastar. Seastar last time I looked at it was fairly simple, but didn't use coroutines at all. Instead it used a futures/promise…
throwaway81523 on HN
Felix
From 1 comment
Coroutine idea is very old. I am not 100% sure but they were heavily used in Telecom applications. It's easier in C and old C++ if one can drop down to assembly to switch between…
srean on HN
Protothreads
From 1 comment
Also look at Protothreads :)
throwaway81523 on HN