The Exploits of Plouj

Since I’m doing quite a bit of Java programming lately I’ve become curious about the state of writing concurrent code in it. I was fortunate enough to have a colleague let me borrow the following book:

Having gone through more than half of it already I’m rather surprised as to just how many different tools are available for solving concurrent problems and just how many are a instantly available to Java programmers. Unfortunately, and unsurprisingly, none of these tools in and of themselves are adequate enough for avoiding deadlocks and writing composable deadlock free code. My next step in the search for that silver bullet is to try writing something interesting in Clojure or Haskell using STM.