[e-lang] [CommonJS] Re: Concurrency standard module

[Mark S. Miller]

[+e-lang]

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 8:42 AM, <ihab.awad at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Kris Zyp <kriszyp at gmail.com> 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
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