Python package documentation is abysmal. It tends to read like a novel and yet still only covers surface layer details with simplistic examples. It's next to impossible to just "get an overview" of what's available: just show me the modules, classes, functions, etc. Don't make me spend 30 minutes trying to find an explanation for that one function which just takes a kwargs, which ends up only being covered in thr footnote of some random page in the documentation on something otherwise completely unrelated.
You can make a list of guarantees that concurrency primitives provide. You have to get down into the details, ranging from "memory barriers that guarantee all previous operations have completed", which is really quite a weak guarantee, up through things like "no more than one thing can have this lock at a time", which is the sort of thing that a moderately experienced person might already have considered to be one of the weakest guarantees but there's quite a few "memory barriers" that are significantly weaker, up through things like the channel's guarantee of "if you pass the send operation you are guaranteed that some other goroutine has already picked this up", and finally, proceeding upwards to something like a distributed lock's "you are guaranteed to be the only thing holding this lock across the entire cluster", which is very expensive. And this is still only a very-coarse-grained summary of the sorts of concurrency primitives there are.
The easiest one to see is the distributed versus non-distributed versions of locks as they are so dramatically different and so obviously different in expense, but the principle extends all the way down to even different sorts of memory barriers with different guarantees having different costs.
When each of these are optimized to within an inch of their life, as they typically are, including all the way down to the hardware level, stepping up to a higher guarantee level is never free.
I've been there, being forced to use it for work..
I tried both Yabai and Amethyst and, frankly, neither provide a clean experience.
Yabai requires disabling some OS security feature iirc, which may or may not be an issue for you.
I seem to recall having issues with it, and switching to Amethyst pretty soon after.
It might also only support BSP layout, which I dislike - stacks all the way.
Amethyst feels a little half baked. It works well enough, but configuration is through a GUI and saved in some non text format, making it not difficult friendly.
It also doesn't support things like moving windows between workspaces, meaning you need to have additional bindings for that through the MacOS command center or whatever it's called.
Overall, I managed with Amethyst for close to 2 years, so that's the one I'd recommend of the two.
Luckily I'm back on a Linux machine and can use river now. :)
> It also doesn't support things like moving windows between workspaces
It's been a while since I used Amethyst as the Mac is now on complete corporate lockdown, but I remember that being the biggest feature I used on Amethyst. MacOS doesn't support it, but Amethyst did.
I lost my Amethyst due to corporate lockdown rebuild a few weeks ago. MacOS window management is obnoxious without it and I'm much less productive due to losing my tools.
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