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Whoa, I just started building something similar for scrapscript! Curious: Who is the target demographic for this service? Hobbyists? I'm also interested in wh

Whoa, I just started building something similar for scrapscript! Curious: Who is the target demographic for this service? Hobbyists? I'm also interested in what benefits unison touts specifically. Is the only reason to choose unison over Cloudflare's workers the conveniences of functional typing and other ergonomics?

_delirium 3y ago
This may be more of a comp. sci. answer than you're looking for, but the thing I find most unique is the content-addressed functional language underlying it. Content-addressed meaning that definitions can be identified with "a hash of the AST", which is used as the building block for distributed programming: https://www.unison-lang.org/docs/the-big-idea/ https://www.unison-lang.org/docs/the-big-idea/ I see the unison.cloud service itself as more of a first large-scale demo of what you can build on that idea (which will hopefully also fund it). But the underlying language is open source and I think could have legs in a bunch of possible applications.
- surprisetalk 3y ago
  Thanks! Yeah, my language is content-addressable too, which is why I'm interested in how it's being used in the wild. [1] https://scrapscript.org https://scrapscript.org I'm excited to see how it progresses beyond "first large-scale demo"!
- RadiozRadioz 3y ago
  In a weird way, it's what JDSL wanted to be https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-inner-json-effect https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-inner-json-effect
  - pdimitar 3y ago
    I need a full liter of unsee juice to recover after reading this.
  - rizky05 3y ago
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- azeirah 3y ago
  Joe Armstrong can finally be happy :D
  - losvedir 3y ago
    Ha, indeed. For context[0]. That's stuck with me ever since I read it, and I immediately saw that Unison kind of ran with that idea, when I came across it many years ago. I've always been interested and following on the sidelines, but haven't tried it out yet. Maybe now is the time. [0] https://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-May/058768.html https://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-May/05876...
ParetoOptimal 3y ago
Unison is an actual language with many cutting edge features. Im fairly sure Unison was created for a mix of practical and theoretical concerns, especially the intersection thereof. My gut tells me Cloudflare workers are some type of low-code solution.
- kentonv 3y ago
  > My gut tells me Cloudflare workers are some type of low-code solution. Cloudflare Workers hosts servers written in JavaScript / Wasm.
- paint 3y ago
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posix86 3y ago
On their website, they explain that they attempt to lift the idea of a programming language describing computation within a single process to computation across services, made of different processes, connected e.g. via the internet. Which sounds incredibly ambitious, but might be where we're headed.

_delirium 3y ago

This may be more of a comp. sci. answer than you're looking for, but the thing I find most unique is the content-addressed functional language underlying it. Content-addressed meaning that definitions can be identified with "a hash of the AST", which is used as the building block for distributed programming: https://www.unison-lang.org/docs/the-big-idea/ https://www.unison-lang.org/docs/the-big-idea/ I see the unison.cloud service itself as more of a first large-scale demo of what you can build on that idea (which will hopefully also fund it). But the underlying language is open source and I think could have legs in a bunch of possible applications.

surprisetalk 3y ago
Thanks! Yeah, my language is content-addressable too, which is why I'm interested in how it's being used in the wild. [1] https://scrapscript.org https://scrapscript.org I'm excited to see how it progresses beyond "first large-scale demo"!
RadiozRadioz 3y ago
In a weird way, it's what JDSL wanted to be https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-inner-json-effect https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-inner-json-effect
- pdimitar 3y ago
  I need a full liter of unsee juice to recover after reading this.
- rizky05 3y ago
  [dead]
azeirah 3y ago
Joe Armstrong can finally be happy :D
- losvedir 3y ago
  Ha, indeed. For context[0]. That's stuck with me ever since I read it, and I immediately saw that Unison kind of ran with that idea, when I came across it many years ago. I've always been interested and following on the sidelines, but haven't tried it out yet. Maybe now is the time. [0] https://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-May/058768.html https://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-May/05876...

ParetoOptimal 3y ago

Unison is an actual language with many cutting edge features. Im fairly sure Unison was created for a mix of practical and theoretical concerns, especially the intersection thereof. My gut tells me Cloudflare workers are some type of low-code solution.

kentonv 3y ago
> My gut tells me Cloudflare workers are some type of low-code solution. Cloudflare Workers hosts servers written in JavaScript / Wasm.
paint 3y ago
[dead]

posix86 3y ago

On their website, they explain that they attempt to lift the idea of a programming language describing computation within a single process to computation across services, made of different processes, connected e.g. via the internet. Which sounds incredibly ambitious, but might be where we're headed.