Haskellers who want to experiment with the concepts of Erlang in Haskell can now do so with an experimental Erlang-like distributed computing framework called ‘remote’. It’s quite basic but covers concurrency, selective receive of messages, local and global registration of processes, and trapping exits. Related Microsoft Research Paper.
Posts under ‘languages’
Go borrows key concepts from Erlang
The Go language, getting a lot of attention because it was recently open sourced by Google, seems to be a sort of programmers’ Rorschach test in that everyone calls it a replacement for C++/Python/Erlang/Your Language Here… My sense is it wouldn’t be getting that much attention if it were released apart from Google. But thinking [...]
Interview with Reia Creator Tony Arcieri on Erlang, Reia, Python, and Rails
We interrupt the recent holiday related posting haitus with an interview with Tony Arcieri, creator of Reia. Tony agreed to answer some questions about Reia. Tony has a lot more information on Reia in the FAQ, where he covers reasons for some of the design decisions of the language. He can be reached at his [...]