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> Therefore the real advantage of Loom user-mode threads and co-routines is syntactical programming convenience. That's the real innovation in Loom!

It's an interesting alternative to Async-Await / Haskell Monads / F# workflows for sure; and a better fit for Java. But I think some credit is also due for languages like C#, F# and Haskell for providing some healthy competition and prior art in this area.

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The relevant prior art is in Scheme (and OCaml, a bit), Erlang and Go, and we do credit them where relevant. Nevertheless, there are a few innovations in Java, both in implementation and design. For example, Java allows you to provide a custom scheduler for virtual threads.

I am very impressed with the recent changes happening to Java, all of which seem very carefully thought out and planned, keep up the good work!

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