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I'm so old, I thought this was about Panic's Usenet client Unison.
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That depends. What are you wanting to accomplish more broadly with the integration? I'll mention a couple things that might be relevant - you could have the git repo reference a branch or an immutable namespace hash on Unison Share. And as part of your git repo's CI, pull the Unison code and compile and/or deploy it or whatever you need to do. There's support for webhooks on Unison Share as well, so you can do things…
> What are you wanting to accomplish more broadly with the integration? For me that would be: - not lose my stuff - share with friends - let others contribute
https://share.unison-lang.org/
It's open source, you can create a free account with GitHub OAuth, and you can push projects there and collaborate on them, open PRs, publish releases, etc. It's very quick to pick up if you're already familiar with GitHub.
I have been following Unison for a veeery long time. Ever since those blog posts on Paul's personal website. It has been more than 10 years already so this is a great milestone. But I am just a bit disappointed. I love programming languages. I follow every programming language, even some you probably have never heard of. I have witnessed the rise of Rust, Go, Zig and others. At the age and level of polish that Unison…
What would be enough?
If you ever need this kind of stuff, you'll be better off building your own distributed interface by using plain regular GHC Haskell and https://haskell-distributed.github.io/
You should totally write up a tutorial demoing the development of the same application using each. Folks would love that.
Also, hi, I'm one of the language creators, feel free to ask any questions here!
Edit: I found https://www.unison-lang.org/blog/jit-announce/
Also, hi, I'm one of the language creators, feel free to ask any questions here!
To what Unison is actually compiled to and how is it ran? Gemini LLM says it compiles down to Scheme with is then ran Chez Scheme, how much of an LLM hallucination is that? Edit: I found https://www.unison-lang.org/blog/jit-announce/
Also, hi, I'm one of the language creators, feel free to ask any questions here!
Thanks for your work! Who wrote the big idea post? https://www.unison-lang.org/docs/the-big-idea/
If you ever need this kind of stuff, you'll be better off building your own distributed interface by using plain regular GHC Haskell and https://haskell-distributed.github.io/
`haskell-distributed` is awesome, but the reason Unison is a new language is exactly to avoid the limitations of such frameworks, namely that they _can't_ send arbitrary code and data around like Unison can. You should totally write up a tutorial demoing the development of the same application using each. Folks would love that.
by introducing another set of limitations that Unison docs don't state upfront, because it will affect their progression as the business.
> namely that they _can't_ send arbitrary code and data around like Unison can.
> You should totally write up a tutorial demoing the development of the same application using each. Folks would love that.
You should add "out of the box", and that "like Unison can" isn't the only way to implement a distributed runtime. This leads to another logical question: why should I "totally write up" the Unison way of things? At this point I'm not even sure that 99.999% of workloads need distributed runtimes of any kind, let alone the Unison one.