Software Transactional Memory: #Clojure vs. #Haskell
New post! Comparing these was a lot of fun. Shoutout to @plexus for the inspiration with the concurrency problem.
https://leftfold.tech/posts/pie-a-la-mode/
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@johnny > drop the transaction if we’ve had no luck for x seconds
That would be registerDelay. It’s in IO, but it gives you a TVar, that will flip to True when the time comes. You can readTVar it to decide retry or bail.
Also, you can wrap pretty much anything in timeout (in IO proper).
