Erlang achieves Dan Ingalls' Smalltalk goals
Choice in software systems design seems hampered by the scaffolding needed to use shared memory and message passing between threads and processes. Dan Ingalls: "An OS has the things not there in the language. There shouldn't be one.". It was about #Smalltalk but the #Erlang VM seems to solve that, with shared binaries between processes and transparent message-passing across nodes. Maybe your language and database should run on the #BEAM ?
Erlang achieves Dan Ingalls' Smalltalk goals
@tonyg I seem to recall reading this earlier, I do occasionally read your blog in general :-) You would have deeper vision on this, what with your work on #SyndicateLang and all; I was just bemoaning how difficult designing software using OS shared memory is :-(
Erlang achieves Dan Ingalls' Smalltalk goals
@tetrislife I broadly agree with this toot. I'd be interested in a best-of-both design. Long ago I wrote a little blog post about it: https://eighty-twenty.org/2011/05/08/weaknesses-of-smalltalk-strengths-of-erlang