Swift atomics are rather awkward

[hassila (Joakim Hassila)]

And half of my wish seems to come true much faster than I could have hoped, super!

[Pitch] Synchronous Mutual Exclusion Lock

Hi all, I would like to propose a new type in the Synchronization module, Mutex. This type is a synchronous mutual exclusion lock, similar to things like OSAllocatedUnfairLock, NIOLock, etc. Please let me know what you think! Synchronous Mutual Exclusion Lock Proposal: SE-NNNN Author: Alejandro Alonso Review Manager: TBD Status: [stdlib] Implement Mutex in Synchronization by Azoy · Pull Request #71383 · apple/swift · GitHub Introduction This proposal introduces a mutual exclusion lock,…