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		TechBro8615 on April 26, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You could have invented futexes Not that it would apply in this particular case, but my all-time favorite visualization of concurrency is this 2016 blog post called "Visualizing Concurrency in Go" [0]. So good. [0] https://divan.dev/posts/go_concurrency_visualize/

rektide on April 26, 2023 [–]

Using time to represent time is a pretty helpful & intuitive strategy, very nicely on display in this example & the submission.

It does require some waiting around to see how things develop (versus the at-a-glance approach) but it really feels so very graspable & clear to me.

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