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Comment author: mattnewport 02 December 2009 09:51:12AM *  2 points [-]

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.