The deprecation of ++ shows that (currently) shared's purpose is not only to differentiate between...

shared only differentiates between shared and unshared data. Teaching people to write legit concurrent code...

I'm not sure what you're saying here. Should unsafe reading and writing of...

It's strange if you want to expose a bare volatile variable to the rest...

Correct me if I'm wrong: Currently, the compiler generates a non-atomic load for...

True. One would have to watch out for that, and maybe work around correspondingly. The...

You suggested to use atomicLoad to access shared data. Raw atomic load is an assembler...

If you cast shared away, an unshared postblit will be called instead of shared one.

Backpedaling on that one.

With automatic atomic loads and stores, one could accidentally write this...

Volatile just means that another thread can mess with the data, right? So shared data...