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Episode 486: Bob Nystrom on Dart

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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The Top 3 Benefits of Concurrency in Programming Languages

Dart has these things called isolates. I don't know where that word came from, but they are concurrency primitive rights. They're a way of having multiple threads runninga truly concurrently without having the complexity in the overhead of thread sincernization. You get the formance benefits of multi threading, but you don't have the maintainability nightmare of shared memory multi threading. So each isolate has its own heap, and they're not allowed to directly access each other's memory. And then we have these things called ports that let you communicate between them.

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