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I feel like it's not terribly hard to write something that more or less works using mutexes and the like, but I find it exceedingly hard to debug. You're at the mercy of timing and the scheduler, meaning that often just throwing a breakpoint and stepping through isn't as easy as it would be with a sequential program.

I feel like with a queue or messaging abstraction, it can be easier to debug. Generally your actual work is being done on a single thread, meaning that traditional debugging tools work fine, and as I've said in sibling comments, I also just think it's easier to reason about what's going on.




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