On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 00:26:41 +0100 Léo Le Bouter <lle-b...@zaclys.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-03-11 at 08:23 +0900, Yasuaki Kudo wrote: > > Hello! > > Hello! > > I think you can use JSON-RPC libraries as modern alternatives to that. > Also gRPC. The "micro-service" paradigm. > > > Is this a topic that is particularly interesting to the Guix > > community because of interoperability, mixing packages, etc? 😄 > > I don't think so, not in particular. > > > Cheers, > > Yasu > > Léo There is an interesting Nix based project that has some actual good use cases for a common intermediate representation: https://publish.illinois.edu/allvm-project/ Chris Webber's talk on Spritely also had some good ideas for using OCAP in Guix to enhance security by a whole lot. https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/spritelygoblins/ And that is basically just cross-language remote procedure calls. Another interesting possibility is to run everything on WASM without an MMU. See the classic The Birth and Death of Javascript talk. https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript Of course that one is pre-Spectre/Meltdown, so take it with a grain of salt.
