Deprecate or remove atomics?

[planetis-m]

It seems that this module have fallen out of grace, with the respective RFC closed. Is it supposed to be deprecated in favor of std/atomics?

[Araq]

I think so, yes.

[konsumlamm]

std/atomics and threading/atomics look very similar, but there are some differences:

• std has an annoying mo prefix for memory orderings
• std also supports non-trivial types, which is a bit of a footgun (see also https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/445), although AtomType is a bit restrictive

So I like the threading version a bit better. If std/atomics should be preferred, it should at least be made stable.

[Araq]

So I like the threading version a bit better. If std/atomics should be preferred, it should at least be made stable.

Yeah, let us do that.