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The Abstract Wikipedia team has decided to rewrite the backend in Rust (www.wikifunctions.org)
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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In this way, we can avoid relying on subprocesses and instead use threads (or, technically, asynchronous tasks) in Rust. Threads/tasks are much easier to manage

I believe, in their case cancelling a sync operation will not be a problem because they will not forever block on executing user-provided code, but cancelling a synchronous thread is not easy, afaik

[–] fnrir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

Available on Unix only.

Only kills the thread if it has enabled cancellation

I mean, they will probably set it up correctly to be able to use it