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Brilliant solution, terrible name.

Took me a while to get it — child processes belong in nurseries. Bad abstraction, because the key here is processes. Lots of thing haves child nodes.

And what happens in nurseries? Growing? Maybe they were thinking watching — babysitting and it’s a cultural terminology difference.

But it would be just as silly to call a thread monitor/manager a babysitter as a nursery.

Like I said, it’s a great concept and a valuable abstraction, but I fear it will need a better name to take off.



> Took me a while to get it — child processes belong in nurseries. Bad abstraction, because the key here is processes.

Abstractions have nothing to do with their names. They are not good/bad based on what they are called. You might be conflating metaphors/analogies with that.


I hear the term "threadset" in other discussion about structured concurrency, i think "threadset" would be a better name.




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