Re: [CommonJS] Re: Concurrency standard module
"Mark S. Miller" <[email protected]>
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[+e-lang] On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 8:42 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Kris Zyp <[email protected]> wrote: > > I hope CommonJS doesn't attempt to specify an inter-machines protocol, > > there are plenty of good protocols out there, we don't want to reinvent > > that wheel, and we certainly wouldn't want to be limited to only > > communicating with other CommonJS machines (the machines could be > > running any language). > > We are *so* far away from worrying about this at the moment, so I > agree with you. However, this is a bit of a hobby horse of mine, so > here goes: It would be really great to have a true, easy to use > distributed object protocol for JS (sort of like what Kevin Reid > showed us with E, where he simply schlepped an object from one "vat" > to another). That protocol would of necessity be JS specific. And that > would be ok. > Although Caja-CapTP supports idiomatic Caja, the protocol is not Caja or JS specific. I had thought at one point that it was but Kevin corrected me. Some improvements were made over prior CapTP implementations regarding choice of identifiers. Once CapTP for E-on-Common Lisp is upgraded with the same improvements, then, transport-layer-issues aside, IIUC, they should be able to interoperate. Kevin? -- Cheers, --MarkM _______________________________________________ e-lang mailing list [email protected] http://www.eros-os.org/mailman/listinfo/e-lang