hopac-concurrency-with-synchronous-messaging
One of the four tenets in the Reactive Manifesto is asynchronous messaging, but what if we considered the alternative? Synchronous messaging may not be the sin we've all been warned against. Inspired by Concurrent ML and the concurrent synchronous processes model, we will discuss the concurrency primitives exposed by the Hopac library and how they can be composed to build highly-concurrent applications which benefit from lightweight threads, an optimized work scheduler, and the ability to react to multiple communication channels. All while avoiding some of the pitfalls of asynchronous messaging.
