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22Dec2008

Swarm now known as "Vega", and has its own Google Code project

DateMonday, December 22, 2008 at 12:28PM

Avid readers of my blog (hi Mum!) may recall my proposal for a Distributed Programming Language a few weeks ago.

In the hope of stimulating progress, I've now created a Google Code Project for it, and renamed the concept "Vega" (after nothing in particular).  If interested, please sign up for the Google Code project, join the discussion group etc etc.

AuthorIan Clarke | Comment4 Comments |
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Reader Comments (4)

Hi Ian,

I believe my project Enchilada has a big overlap with Vega.

Enchilada is a concatenative programming language that has immutable, portable continuations (expressions), optimized to be serialized on top of a DHT.

Everything is immutable (copy semantics) in Enchilada - yielding absolute consistency with transactions, expressed in optimistic MVCC semantics.

Although Enchilada is a research language, I feel that its concepts will become more and more important in the near future, i.e:

Source code, compiled code, continuations and (immutable) data will inevitably blend, and will not stay separate entities, as they are now.

As an example, many configurable frameworks tend to blur the distinction between '(static) configuration' and '(compiled) code' to a point that I think there is no practical difference.

December 23, 2008 | Unregistered Commenterrapido

Rapido, that looks very interesting indeed - I look forward to delving into it and may have some follow-up questions for you.

December 30, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterIan Clarke

Congratulations, Ian. Curious to know your thoughts on Erlang (in general and/or in relation to Vega).

January 7, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJoubin Houshyar

It looks like the google code project page is currently inactive.

January 22, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterIan Mulvany

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