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> language with poor concurrency controls

Few other languages have as many builtins/keywords for concurrency control: &, wait, jobs ...

> How to run shell commands in parallel while limiting their concurrency.

Depending upon the task, generate a Makefile and run it with:

  make -n <concurrency>

> My original use case had to do with making a large number of web requests

This is in fact the use case that caused me to think about using a Makefile for concurrency probably 20 years ago. A rule for downloading each URL to a file. Then a simple `make -n <n>` with whatever concurrency I desired and bonus: automatically skipping already downloaded files.

I guess that works.

I've always been fond of using make for things to get free parallelism / ability to interrupt / restart / incremental updates.