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Comparison of Go Concurrency and Tokio Select: Similarities and Possibilities

just finished watching this talk on go concurrency: https://youtu.be/YEKjSzIwAdA?si=YAe1n1GDUzhg04qM
which is pretty cool- Effect

queue

queue

is remarkably similar to channels (im guessing this is intentional)

in go they have

select

select

https://gobyexample.com/select - very similar to tokio select https://tokio.rs/tokio/tutorial/select

both allow you to pass any number of asynchronous items and provide code to execute on their completion

in effect we have

raceWith

raceWith

, but its limited to just two effects

would it be possible to make this similar to the

all

all

api where you could pass in a

Record<
  Effect<any, E, A>, 
  (exit: Exit<E, A>, remainingFibers: Fiber<unknown, unknown>[]) => Effect<R2, E2, A2>
>

Record<
  Effect<any, E, A>, 
  (exit: Exit<E, A>, remainingFibers: Fiber<unknown, unknown>[]) => Effect<R2, E2, A2>
>

writing that out and not sure if its possible just type wise
curious on others thoughts