Concurrency and Multithreading

Question

I\'m not very experienced with subjects such as Concurrency and Multithreading. In fact, in most of my web-development career I had never needed to touch these subjects.

Answer 1

The language choice depends on the application you want to do.

Do you want to create a highly scalable system, with lots of incoming "requests"? Then Erlang may be a good choice. It is known to be a good fit for "highly concurrent" application scenarios.

If you want to write a typical game and want it to use the now typically available dual or quad core CPUs of your audience, then you are bound to different decisions (frameworks, engines, libraries, available hardware interfaces). In this case, you will use threads, and thread pools to offload processing work. Most probably you will use a kind of message queue to communicate between the threads.

In (server-side) web-development you most probably already gained some experience in concurrent programming! Maybe you were not aware of it, because the language and the given framework (maybe Apache & PHP) provided you with an environment that took the burden off your shoulders.