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How's the JVM on concurrency these days? My loose impression was that it wasn't actually all that hot.
I think it's pretty fair to say that no language or runtime is that great on concurrency today. Coming up with a better way to program for many-core machines is probably the major area of research in language design today and there doesn't appear to be a consensus on the best approach yet.
I think a case could be made that the best problem a genius-level programmer could devote themselves to right now is how to effectively program for many-core architectures.
My impression is that JVM is worse at concurrency than every other approach that's been tried so far.
Haskell and other functional programming languages has many promising ideas but isn't widely used in the industry AFAIK.
This presentation gives a good short overview of the current state of concurrency approaches.