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I honestly don’t think it will, not for a long time. It’s going to make things more complicated, because now we have to figure out how to move the entire ecosystem to it incrementally, while operating and maintaining systems during the long transition period, and making technical decisions at every step about how best to do concurrency with all those extra constraints.

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Their compatibility story is alright though, at least they are trying to make "Thread" forward-compatible with the new runtime. And they are working on getting Netty to work, which will immediately get things compiling (not working) for a lot of projects.

The biggest challenge will be reconciling Futures, Netty and ThreadLocal (FiberLocal) patterns. Think defining a SQL transaction lifetime, a distributed lock, or a OpenTracing span. For Spring Framework people, no big deal. For everyone else, lots of complex decisions to make.

I don't see it used much in legacy systems, but the benefits are large enough that I could see new Akka-ish libraries built on it.

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