Re: Adding Flycheck to NonGNU ELPA

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
> Cc: Steve Purcell <steve@sanityinc.com>,  Stefan Kangas
>  <stefankangas@gmail.com>,  Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
>  Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>,  joakim@verona.se,  Bozhidar
>  Batsov <bozhidar@batsov.dev>,  Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 11:20:00 -0500
> 
> Or... IMO, even better than a helper would be using Elisp threads for
> this.  Then there's no need for any callback stuff.

Caveat: if the callback needs to display something, you could still
have a problem with threads.

> Really, threads are a natural fit for flymake, since flymake already
> provides a UI which can display data computed asynchronously by
> threads, and that's IMO the hardest part of using threads.

Emacs Lisp threads are not really asynchronous.