Misty: A secure distributed actor language
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Misty: A secure distributed actor language
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Re: Misty: A secure distributed actor language
#2A fair bit of discussion from a year ago:
https://lobste.rs/s/r8vitn/misty_programing_language_from_cr...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38820305
There are a few older discussions on HN, but none with more than single digit comments.
Re: Misty: A secure distributed actor language
#3Still a lot todo.
https://github.com/douglascrockford/Misty There's only the spec and parser yet: https://mistysystem.com/doc/road_ahead.html
Giving that he was at same state a year ago also, I see not much progress
Re: Misty: A secure distributed actor language
#4Curious if this overlaps at all with the use cases of the spritely project [1]. Another question is whether esoteric languages are strictly needed for these architectures or simply more convenient.
Re: Misty: A secure distributed actor language
#5Tldr for erlang users?
Re: Misty: A secure distributed actor language
#6Regardless of the merits of the language itself, the presentation here leaves something to be desired.
The landing page itself conveys zero information, and when I click into the Introduction, it's almost entirely dedicated to a particularly persnickety whitespace standard, and the grammar rules for parsing comments and identifiers. This is not really helping me understand what the language is about...
Between that and the odd jab at Javascript assignment operators, I have the sense that the author is more interested in grinding axes than in explaining.
Re: Misty: A secure distributed actor language
#7Regardless of the merits of the language itself, the presentation here leaves something to be desired. The landing page itself conveys zero information, and when I click into the Introduction, it's almost entirely dedicated to a particularly persnickety whitespace standard, and the grammar rules for parsing comments and identifiers. This is not really helping me understand what the language is about... Between that a…
...author is Douglas Crockford, creator of JavaScript and JSON.
Re: Misty: A secure distributed actor language
#8Regardless of the merits of the language itself, the presentation here leaves something to be desired. The landing page itself conveys zero information, and when I click into the Introduction, it's almost entirely dedicated to a particularly persnickety whitespace standard, and the grammar rules for parsing comments and identifiers. This is not really helping me understand what the language is about... Between that a…
...author is Douglas Crockford, creator of JavaScript and JSON.
to be fair, if $Y creates $X and $Y doesn't hate $X with a passion and doesn't come up with $Z that is a gazillion times better than $X, then $X is probably not very useful.
Re: Misty: A secure distributed actor language
#9example of distribution please? couldn’t find
Re: Misty: A secure distributed actor language
#10Tldr for erlang users?
Continue to use Erlang. ;)