Wow, just thinking about C++ while slacking, was enough to inspire a solution to a race condition in my Clojurescript project.
Earlier, I made some notes and walked away from the problem, because it was getting frustrating. Then, while I was checking this out, I started thinking "Imagine how complex this would have been if I had done it in C++" Then the immediately following thought was "Well, in C++, I would instead build it like so, because it needs to be thread safe." Problem solved, obvious-in-hindsight solution.
Even though my problem wasn't caused by a low level threading mistake, thinking about the problem in the context of a more primitive tool helped me to better understand how my own tools are working.
Earlier, I made some notes and walked away from the problem, because it was getting frustrating. Then, while I was checking this out, I started thinking "Imagine how complex this would have been if I had done it in C++" Then the immediately following thought was "Well, in C++, I would instead build it like so, because it needs to be thread safe." Problem solved, obvious-in-hindsight solution.
Even though my problem wasn't caused by a low level threading mistake, thinking about the problem in the context of a more primitive tool helped me to better understand how my own tools are working.