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Every time I see something like this (turn function calls into a network call), I reflect fondly on the list of fallacies in distributed computing [0]. These are issues that largely have to be handled in an application-specific way, and cannot be solved in the general case. This list alone has saved me many late debugging nights, just by not making or using systems that ignore the list. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/…
I ask this question, but instead: I ask it of Lua. As in, what if there was a Linux distro that focused, primarily, on building a Lua layer on top of everything, system-wise. Just replace all the standard stuff with one single, system-friendly language: Lua. C/C++ everything as it currently is: put Lua on top all the way to the Desktop. It’s only a thought experiment, except there are cases where I can see a way to u…
Wouldn't you face the same problem as Dotnet on Windows? AFAIK, dotnet based frameworks and apps suffered from huge performance issues. It might have improved in recent times, I am not actually a windows dev. If just the end user application is in Lua, then maybe it's fine and the high level language slowdown won't matter. If you want to wrap the low level kernel APIs etc in a high level language as the canonical int…
MS even had a prototype version of Windows where the entire OS from the kernel up was managed code (a little excessive, IMO).
Dotnet GUI apps failed on Windows mostly because their UI toolkits are a mess and Electron won the cross platform war. I avoid this stack like the plague, but I write a lot of web backends in C#/ASP.NET (on Linux deploying to k8s) and it's great!
this article comes back 100% ai (for the opening). i will not reveal the tell that made me churn
this article comes back 100% ai (for the opening). i will not reveal the tell that made me churn
You mean the cadence where everything is presented in threes? Yeah I hate it too, but beats paying some blogger to do it
You could also use your own words instead of an LLM. Would have been more interesting.
Pah - all these newcomers with interpreted/bytecode languages for remote functions! It's easy to send text or bytecode to another instance of your runtime. I did a distributed system sending native code functions to be executed remotely. Fair enough, it was for academic purposes, but it worked [1]. ------------------------------------- [1] By "worked" I mean got a passing grade on a thesis that got an IMDB number. Pr…
Film studies thesis?
I'm gonna leave that there so that your comment remains funny!
The distributed object fallacy is never going away, is it? https://martinfowler.com/articles/distributed-objects-micros...
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You mean the cadence where everything is presented in threes? Yeah I hate it too, but beats paying some blogger to do it
> You mean the cadence where everything is presented in threes? Yeah I hate it too, but beats paying some blogger to do it You could also use your own words instead of an LLM. Would have been more interesting.
I ask this question, but instead: I ask it of Lua. As in, what if there was a Linux distro that focused, primarily, on building a Lua layer on top of everything, system-wise. Just replace all the standard stuff with one single, system-friendly language: Lua. C/C++ everything as it currently is: put Lua on top all the way to the Desktop. It’s only a thought experiment, except there are cases where I can see a way to u…
Sounds kind of like Arcan https://arcan-fe.com/about/