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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. Co
by _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 agoThanks! 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 agoIn 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
- azeirah 3y agoJoe Armstrong can finally be happy :D
- losvedir 3y agoHa, 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...