Most concurrency bugs come from confusing 'simultaneous' with 'ordered', says engineer
Franc0Fernand0 · x · 2026-09-16
The author argues that in everyday life, synchronization means making things happen at the same time, but in computing it almost always means controlling the order of events. Most concurrency bugs he has seen stem from applying the first intuition to problems that are actually about the second.
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