Factor 0.84 is out
Version 0.84 of the Factor programming language implementation is out. Changelog here. more →
Distributed Concurrency in Factor
One of the advantages (and pretty much the only one) of being down with the flu recently is I've been able to hack away at Factor code, like the serialization library mentioned previously. I've just added simple distributed message passing support to the concurrency library. Processes now belong to 'nodes'. These are individual Factor instances running on a machine. Messages... more →
Object Serialization with Factor
As Slava noted in his weblog, I've tidied up a previous serialization library to get it working with current Factor versions in the hopes of using it to get distributed concurrency working. The serialisation supports most Factor types and is extensible by adding methods to generic functions. You can even serialize quotations containing words, and so long as those words... more →
Transterpreter source available
The source for the Transterpreter, a portable Occam implementation, has been made available. more →
Cells style gadget updating in Factor
Factor has a Cells like mechanism for propogating changes in models to their GUI representation (called Gadgets). It's like a lightweight functional reactive programming system. Using the latest darcs Factor code, which includes a Calendar library, you can quite easily get a gadget displaying with a dynamically updated date. To have a gadget dynamically updated it must reference a 'model'... more →