On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 21:34:40 +0900 Yasuaki Kudo <y...@yasuaki.com> wrote:
> > On Mar 14, 2021, at 10:30, raingloom <raingl...@riseup.net> wrote: > > > > 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. > I have just thought about dynamic "Rosetta Code" - some software that > generates simple code for the target language, compiles it and tests > the result. > > It might be useful to learn a new language. > > For example, in PowerShell, there is some awkward syntax for an array > of array wherein : > > (,(1,2)) > > If the preceding comma is omitted, it will not be treated as an array > of array. > > My idea is to write some simple code in the language one is familiar > and let the program translate it to some other language, while using > Guix to summon the necessary compiler for the target language 😄 The Rosetta Code website already exists for this use case: https://rosettacode.org/ But this is not really relevant to Guix. ps.: I took the liberty of rearranging your mail into a bottom-reply. Top replying is generally not recommended on mailing lists.
