Yes, in the same way that you can give up `for` loops and `while` loops and `if` statements and `switch` statements and instead write them all with `goto`, but you don't do this, and anyone advising you to do this would be written off as insane. The entire thrust of this thread is that you can have a more reliable system that is easier to reason about if you use specific constructs that each have less power, and non-distributed systems have the option to do this. Unstructured concurrency should be reserved exclusively for contexts where structured concurrency is impossible, which is what the actor model is for.
> The entire thrust of this thread is that you can have a more reliable system that is easier to reason about if you use specific constructs that each have less power
Easier to reason about, sure, fine. Your earlier comment claims the actor model is a dead end in non-distributed systems.
> Unstructured concurrency should be reserved exclusively for contexts where structured concurrency is impossible, which is what the actor model is for.
Results from my quick search on structured/unstructured concurrency were all references to Swift. Is this a Swift thing? In any case, the issue appears to be more about managing tasks that don't require a preemptive scheduler. As I see it, that issue appears orthogonal to distributed/non-distributed systems.
If you have two ways of structuring something, and the worse way is so predominant that it obscures even the existence of the better way, that's a dead end in my book. In the pre-structured-programming days when people had to fight tooth and nail to get people to acknowledge the value of `if` and `while` over `goto`, we would have also called `goto` a dead end; it's plain to see that we would be in a worse place today if the structured programming advocates had not managed to convince everyone of its superiority.
> Results from my quick search on structured/unstructured concurrency were all references to Swift. Is this a Swift thing?
I have no idea whether Swift supports it, but no, it's not a Swift thing any more than `while` and `if` are a Python thing. I highly, highly encourage people to read the linked blog post, it will be the best use of your time today.