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Telescript [0] is based on this idea, although at a higher level. I wish we could just build Actor-based operating systems and then we wouldn't need to keep rei
by dreamcompiler 7y ago
Telescript [0] is based on this idea, although at a higher level. I wish we could just build Actor-based operating systems and then we wouldn't need to keep reinventing flexible distributed computation, but alas...[1]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescript_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescript_(programming_langua...
[1] Yes I know Erlang exists. I wish more people would use it.
- peterwwillis 7y agoWe'll keep poorly reinventing distributed computing features until we have a real distributed operating system. We're actually not that far off from it, but good luck convincing a mainline kernel dev to accept your patches.