I admit to a certain amount of ambivalence to releasing Yet Another Monadic
Concurrency library.  (I don't think Equeue is in quite the same category,
since it has such a different style of interface.)  But I think we had good
reasons for creating Async.  As I said in my blog post, the differences in
error-handling and interleaving policy were enough that we really felt we
needed a different library.

And now that we've created it, there are multiple reasons to release it.
 For one thing, we want it for out own open-source projects outside of the
office!  And it's a precondition for us for releasing other software that
we've developed internally that depends on Async.

As an aside, we use lots of OCaml libraries developed outside our walls:
RES, PCRE, Lacaml, Postgres bindings and OUnit and xml-light, to name some
off the top of my head.

y

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 3:33 AM, Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>wrote:

> Which is already the third one (Equeue and Lwt being the others). I'm
> very up to reinventing the wheel, but I guess there is some reason.
>
> Does Janestreet use any open source libraries? Or does the commitment
> not go that far?
>
> Gerd
>
> Am Dienstag, den 25.10.2011, 20:32 -0400 schrieb Yaron Minsky:
> > While we're in the announcing mood, I wanted to announce the first
> > public release of Async, Jane Street's monadic concurrency library.
> >
> > You can find out more about Async here:
> >
> >
> >    http://ocaml.janestreet.com/?q=node/100
> >
> >
> > y
>
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