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This looks very cool -- I was totally stoked when it first came out several years ago. Sadly it looks to not be very active. Last commit seems to be in May, the

• andrewcooke 17y ago
  back when i tried using it (also several years ago), i was pretty disappointed. i can no longer remember the details, but i much preferred erlang (despite preferring scheme to erlang from a language pov). i looked back through my blog and found this comment - http://www.acooke.org/cute/TermitevEr0.html http://www.acooke.org/cute/TermitevEr0.html "Even when Termite works (and I couldn't get it to work reliably), it differs in functionality compared to Erlang. A single Gambit instance is a single process - its "threading" is implemented using continuations - and so (unlike Erlang) it cannot automatically use a dual core. ... [I]f you want a system that just works, use Erlang.
  • mononcqc 17y ago
    That's okay, though. Concurrency =/= parallelism. The most important part is being able to build independent blocks that can interact. Having them run at the same time is just a nicety on top of it, but it's in no way essential. Erlang worked that way from the 80s until 2006, when it started supporting SMP in R11B.
  • anonjon 17y ago
    lisp flavored Erlang is pretty cute. http://github.com/rvirding/lfe http://github.com/rvirding/lfe If you like lisp, and you like Erlang, I think that it is the way to go. It compiles to .beam files and runs on the regular VM. I have yet to use it for anything 'serious' but in the toy projects that I have used it for it has been quite good. All that it really needs is more people using it.