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what do you think of that erlang version of the V8 interpreter I posted about higher up? I do find the idea of using the erlang VM where it can do a lot of good
by MrMan 16y ago
what do you think of that erlang version of the V8 interpreter I posted about higher up? I do find the idea of using the erlang VM where it can do a lot of good to be very attractive. While I would probably prefer python running on Beam to Javascript, JS is very "lightweight" if you take my meaning a certain way, and quite ubiquituous even compared to Python. It would also seem to dissolve your specific complaints posted here, would it not?
- jerf 16y agoI use this architecture myself where there's an Erlang thing sitting in the center, dispatching relatively heavyweight jobs to Perl daemons waiting for them, and it does work. That isolates all the "eventish" stuff in Erlang, and turns the Perl daemons into, well, basically webservers, in the sense that they are just serving stateless RPC answers synchronously. This definitely avoids the complexity explosion. You don't need a project like Beam.js to do that, but having someone else having already written the utility code can certainly be useful. Nothing like that existed for Perl but it hasn't been hard to do what I needed.