Ask HN: A language with a fault-tolerant runtime

#1

Post by dils » Wed, May 08, 2024, 11:52 AM UTC

I have been using temporal.io for the last year and was quite impressed by it's fault-tolerant runtime, making my development experience much better.

And I thought today, that wouldn't it be cool if there was a language with temporal-like runtime? Where all Temporal's primitives would be baked in the language itself and where potential errors could be caught during the compilation step.

Re: Ask HN: A language with a fault-tolerant runtime

#2

Post by anonzzzies » Wed, May 08, 2024, 12:25 PM UTC

Erlang/OTP is the closest I think. At least that I know of.

We are building this in Common Lisp so it's dynamic, indeed also based on positive experiences with Temporal. Everything should work like that.

Re: Ask HN: A language with a fault-tolerant runtime

#3

Post by dils » Wed, May 08, 2024, 12:31 PM UTC

anonzzzies wrote: post #2

Erlang/OTP is the closest I think. At least that I know of. We are building this in Common Lisp so it's dynamic, indeed also based on positive experiences with Temporal. Everything should work like that.

Heard a lot about Erlang, but still couldn't get how it is can be compared to temporal.

Re: Ask HN: A language with a fault-tolerant runtime

#4

Post by anonzzzies » Wed, May 08, 2024, 12:35 PM UTC

dils wrote: post #3

anonzzzies wrote: post #2

Erlang/OTP is the closest I think. At least that I know of. We are building this in Common Lisp so it's dynamic, indeed also based on positive experiences with Temporal. Everything should work like that.

Heard a lot about Erlang, but still couldn't get how it is can be compared to temporal.

Erlang with OTP was designed to create very robust processes with all kinds of flows and temporal (...) effects that can recover and restart single processes when a process (which can be on whatever server) fails. Processes are little 'servers' which are governed by supervisors which detect issues and restart them. Nano-services let's say but with a robust tried-and-tested foundation.