Re: It's almost 2016 and when (single-threaded) Emacs hangs, you gotta be smashing your keyboard!

[Alexander Shukaev]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 9:36 PM, John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Alexander Shukaev <haroogan@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I've read numerous times on these mailing lists that nobody is really
>> willing to introduce multi-threading due to historical reasons, and that
>> Emacs is an inherently single-threaded environment which is not designed to
>> support multi-threading, and bla bla bla...
>
> Actually, I have some good news for you: Concurrency of some form is being
> seriously considered for Emacs 26. It will likely not allow *asynchronicity*
> until 27 or 28, and even then perhaps only via a process separation model, but
> we are indeed headed in the direction of modernity -- albeit at the safest
> pace we can manage.
>
> I hear your frustration, and appreciate you taking the time to express it
> here. Please join the emacs-devel mailing list if you'd like to become a part
> of future design discussions concerning this functionality.
>
> John

John, seriously, these are wonderful news!  I'm in emacs-devel for a
long time already.  I gotta catch up with this topic.  Thank you for
this information.