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by shalabhc 9y ago
Solid upvote and the map analogy is great. I think this is a very important point. We often think of a 'program' as a flat blog of text, but we really should have tools to explore various projections of both static and dynamic con
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by shalabhc 9y ago
If you like Jupyter you might also like https://beta.observablehq.com/ which was released recently, in case you missed it.
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by shalabhc 9y ago
> We create objects that really do things and value objects, but it takes time to examine a program and figure out the structure of the objects. I agree with this too. I do think there is another layer of organization needed, which can
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by shalabhc 9y ago
Forgot to mention some related project which falls into the 'clusters of VMs' running actors idea and might be interesting: https://dotnet.github.io/orleans/ and https://github.com/SpaceTime-I
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by shalabhc 9y ago
Right - I think good ideas in Smalltalk are messaging (~actors) and the liveness. But the usual ST model is too 'flat' - all objects and classes live in the same space. This could be extended such that each object is a space in it
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by shalabhc 9y ago
> I think something based on agents that create loosely coupled systems where it easier to expand and replace parts would be a better place to look for a future programming language. +1 A different question would be - what would a Smallt
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by shalabhc 9y ago
Also check out notion.so
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by shalabhc 9y ago
A good writeup is here: http://faster-cpython.readthedocs.io/notes_2017.html
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by shalabhc 9y ago
Do you think it might be possible to integrate non-FRP style programs (basically stateful, imperative style) by running them in a VM which can isolate the effects and snapshot/restore the entire system state? In theory at least, it see
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by shalabhc 9y ago
This looks fantastic. The model appears very clean and different than Jupyter in many ways: - cells can have names (it seems each cell can only export one name that is visible to the rest of the notebook) - dependent cells auto-update when
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by shalabhc 9y ago
I wasn't thinking about another data storage system but more about what core abstractions should be provided by an OS? For example, could the Erlang model be an OS? Say the OS provides a namespace for a constellation of communicating p
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by shalabhc 9y ago
Anyone else feel that a hierarchical 'bytearray' file system isn't really a great base for organizing an operating system? Some limitations are that you have to share everything as 'sequence of bytes', requiring eve
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by shalabhc 9y ago
The big assumption you are making is that we have already found all the 'algebra and calculus' models - i.e. the good mental tools - in computing. You could do division in roman numerals and perhaps people even then justified it w
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Elixir on Google Cloud Platform and App Engine(cloud.google.com)
510 points by shalabhc 9y ago|130 comments
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by shalabhc 9y ago
Check out zodb and durus.
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by shalabhc 9y ago
Is it possible for Luna to self host? Is that somewhere on Luna's roadmap?
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by shalabhc 9y ago
> For instance, today we don't have text terminals. We have high-dpi displays. So why is the first thing you reach for a text buffer? Stop it. +1. The familiar ideas and approaches are 'easy' but not necessarily the best (
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by shalabhc 9y ago
BTW, you might also find PhantomOS interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_OS Specifically 'Managed code: Memory protection on object level, rather than on process level'
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by shalabhc 9y ago
Yeah Haiku is definitely interesting and I'll take another look. I think the datatypes concept (originally from AmigaOS, and I assume also in Haiku?) is very powerful and mainstream operating systems haven't caught up yet. I am al
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by shalabhc 9y ago
I think you've hit the nail on the head here. I would even take this thought further and say people want the features of the apps - but not necessarily segregated into distinct apps. Consider how poor the composition of various apps is
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by shalabhc 9y ago
You mean the web browser, now with wasm? ;-)
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by shalabhc 9y ago
If you're interested in different paradigms see https://github.com/dzavalishin/phantomuserland/blob/master/R...
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by shalabhc 9y ago
Upvoted. We really need more systems that can do P2P well (centralized is just a special case of P2P - you need a few robust, replicating nodes with high connectivity). The routing, replication and persistence of messages is completely orth
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by shalabhc 9y ago
Also see thegamma.net. Might be closer to what you want.
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by shalabhc 9y ago
Please also read Alan Kay's comment below the article. BTW, if you're interested in the 'Mother of all demos', a chapterized version is available here: http://www.dougengelbart.org/firsts/1968-demo-i
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Definition of Simple (2011)(rebol.com)
3 points by shalabhc 9y ago|0 comments
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by shalabhc 9y ago
Next we'll get to a webassembly-only VM that will replace the OS. All 'apps' will run on this VM instead of being native, and most will be cross platform. They'll talk to each other via messaging (using Javascript semant
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Our operating systems are incorrectly factored(eighty-twenty.org)
2 points by shalabhc 9y ago|1 comments
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by shalabhc 9y ago
Very interesting, thanks! Somewhat related,a general purpose annotation platform is http://hypothes.is - a great feature is that PDF annotations are location independent because they use some kind of fingerprint to identify the
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by shalabhc 9y ago
Thanks for the clarifications. > it's not limited only to string parsing, but can be applied to any other series-like value and code (i.e. blocks) itself Sounds somewhat similar to OMeta ( http://www.tinlizzie.org/ome

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