Programming Languages, Martials Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.
Inferno can run as a standalone OS or hosted in an existing OS. In the latter case an emu executable runs and executes as a virtual operating system. An application written in Limbo runs inside this virtual OS. When distributing such an application you can install Inferno on the target machine with the application compiled code inside the filesystem of... more →
The 'TL;DR' of this post on how to borrow internal fields of iso objects in Pony is: more →
Wasp Lisp has a light weight co-operative threading model that's allows programming in an Actor style. It's possible to serialize Wasp values and send them to other processes and machines to be deserialized and run. MOSREF uses this to compile Lisp code on the console process and send the bytecode to drone processes to execute. This allows drones to operate... more →
Wasp Lisp builds binaries that are linked dynamically to glibc. This ties the binary to specific versions of Linux. It's usually not possible to run on an OS with older glibc versions than what it was compiled against. I wanted to be able to run a single binary of Wasp Lisp and MOSREF drones on new Ubuntu versions and some... more →
Pony is an actor oriented programming language. In Pony Actors are objects that can send and receive messages asychronously while processing their received messages sequentially and in parallel with other actors processing their messages. They are the unit of concurrency in the language. Each actor is similar to a lightweight thread of execution in languages that support those. For background... more →