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> - A story for passing typed data around between processes (potentially in different languages) rather than just builtins. I'm not sure exactly what the story

by xiaq 12y ago

> - A story for passing typed data around between processes (potentially in different languages) rather than just builtins. I'm not sure exactly what the story should be, but it should exist. I haven't thought much about FFI yet. But since in shells you interact with other programs so much, adding FFI would a worthy attempt. > - A somewhat more succinct syntax, with metaprogramming kept in mind. Coming up with syntax is actually the hardest thing I find when writing Elvish, since there is much more syntax constraints for a shell. Would be happy to hear advices. > - A JIT, eventually. Maybe later.

igravious 12y ago
Remember this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Object_Request_Broker_Architecture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Object_Request_Broker_Ar... By these guys? http://www.corba.org/ http://www.corba.org/ Whatever happened to that?
- catern 12y ago
  It's been replaced by dbus. Which does indeed have strict types and other features that might be desirable (multicast?). You raise an interesting idea: A shell that pipes materials around from process to process through dbus, and a set of command line tools that accept input over dbus.
  - vram22 12y ago
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Bus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Bus does not work for IPC between computers, AFAIK, only for processes within one machine. CORBA works across machines.
- zurn 12y ago
  It was terrible on multiple levels and deservedly faded away after a short fad.
- vram22 12y ago
  And this: http://google.com/search?q=xml-rpc http://google.com/search?q=xml-rpc Still being used some.