I loved concurrent code when I was starting out. I’d taken a pretty good distributed computing class which started the ball rolling. They just fit into how my brain worked very well.
Then I had to explain my code to other devs, either before or after they broke it, and over and over I got the message that I was being too clever. I’ve been writing Grug-brained concurrent code for so long I’m not sure I can still do the fancy shit anymore, but I’m okay with that. In fact I know I implemented multiple reader single writer at least a few times and that came back to me during this thread but I still can’t remember how I implemented it.
That's something I'm afraid of for my latest project. I did some concurrent stuff that wasn't 100% clear would actually work, and I had to write a PlusCal spec to exhaustively prove to myself that what I was doing is actually OK.
It works pretty well, and I'm getting decent speeds, but I'm really scared someone is going to come and "fix" all my code by doing it the "normal" way, and thus slow everything down. I've been trying to comment the hell out of everything, and I've shared the PlusCal spec, but no one else on my team knows PlusCal and I feel like most engineers don't actually read comments, so I think it's an inevitability that my baby is killed.
Then I had to explain my code to other devs, either before or after they broke it, and over and over I got the message that I was being too clever. I’ve been writing Grug-brained concurrent code for so long I’m not sure I can still do the fancy shit anymore, but I’m okay with that. In fact I know I implemented multiple reader single writer at least a few times and that came back to me during this thread but I still can’t remember how I implemented it.