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Cameron Purdy: The challenge with GC in Java and .NET.

Tim Bray: Concur.next

Right at the moment, we have a bunch of candidate technologies to fill in the concurrent-programming void; obvious examples include Erlang, Scala, Clojure, and Haskell. While there are common threads, they differ from each other in many essential ways. Between the lot of them, there are a whole lot of different characteristics. The fact is, we don’t know at this moment which laundry-list of features is going to turn some candidate into The Java Of Concurrency