That is not exactly what I had in mind, but Robert and David have said it better than I.

Cheers, Eric

On 2026-03-24 7:47 AM, robert engels wrote:
Yes, that’s what I meant. Thanks for the correction. On mobile and a little rushed :)

On Mar 24, 2026, at 9:45 AM, David Alayachew <[email protected]> wrote:


If you mean to say java.util.concurrent.structured, that makes good sense to me. That package change is the missing piece to shortening the name IMO.

On Tue, Mar 24, 2026, 9:38 AM robert engels <[email protected]> wrote:

    Why not put it all in a package concurrency.structured then those
    that want the fully qualified names can basically do so, and
    those that don’t can use static imports.

    > On Mar 24, 2026, at 8:29 AM, Eric Kolotyluk
    <[email protected]> wrote:
    >
    > I am fine with just "TaskScope" -  that's an improvement.
    >
    > Cheers, Eric
    >
    >> On 2026-03-24 12:24 AM, Remi Forax wrote:
    >> I agree with Eric, STS name is too long.
    >>
    >> Unlike Eric, Ì think that "TaskScope" is fine.
    >>
    >> It's API uses the principles of structured concurrency, but it
    does not have to be in the name.
    >>
    >> It's a scope for tasks (subtasks), so "TaskScope" seems good.
    >>
    >> regards,
    >> Rémi
    >>
    >> ----- Original Message -----
    >>> From: "Eric Kolotyluk" <[email protected]>
    >>> To: "loom-dev" <[email protected]>
    >>> Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2026 6:02:30 PM
    >>> Subject: [External] : Re: Structured Concurrency to
    re-preview in JDK 27
    >>> After taking the time to read the JEP, here is my two cents...
    >>>
    >>> 1. Every revision of this seems to get better. I am glad it
    has been
    >>>    incubating for so long before locking it down.
    >>> 2. StructuredTaskScope seems like a long name and seems
    related to
    >>>    ScopedValues
    >>>      * Not that I mind long names
    >>>      * But, when I sense a common pattern ('scope') it begs the
    >>>        question as to the structure of names.
    >>>      * I brought this up years ago before there were scoped
    values, so
    >>>        it is still on my mind.
    >>>
    >>> After playing around with Rust for a while, I find Project Loom
    >>> concurrency to be much easier to understand and reason about,
    possibly
    >>> because of such a long incubating process. Rust concurrency was
    >>> developed too rapidly and needs its own retrospective.
    >>>
    >>> Using Java concurrency since before the release of 1.0, I
    have burned
    >>> myself many times, and learned many hard lesson. Structured
    Concurrency
    >>> is simply the best thing that has ever happened to Java
    Concurrency,
    >>> where I include the whole Loom results as well.
    >>>
    >>> Having developed Akka/Scala code for many years, while it was
    elegant,
    >>> it was hard to reason about with all the callbacks. Java
    >>> CompletableFuture was not any better.
    >>>
    >>> It is far easier, for me, to reason about 'tasks' than
    'futures,' and to
    >>> write imperative code than functional code.
    >>>
    >>> Still, I look forward to Java tackling some of the other good
    ideas from
    >>> Akka/Scala, such as Actors and Scala Streams, where Java
    ScopedValue is
    >>> far better than Scala implicit.
    >>>
    >>> On 2026-03-18 4:44 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
    >>>> The plan for Structured Concurrency is to propose that it
    re-preview
    >>>> in JDK 27 with some changes to improve the exception thrown
    by the
    >>>> join method. It means adding an additional type parameter but it
    >>>> doesn't impact the usability of any of the basic examples.
    We hope to
    >>>> submit the draft JEP [1] soon.
    >>>>
    >>>> -Alan
    >>>>
    >>>> [1] https://openjdk.org/jeps/8373610

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