Re: [racket] Marketplace: A language for network-aware programming

2013-06-06 Thread Tony Garnock-Jones
Hi Ray, On 2013-05-30 12:53 PM, Ray Racine wrote: > Very happy to see this. :-) > What is the general assumption, if any, regarding message delivery > guarantees? Guaranteed, Once-And-Only-Once, At-Most-Once. And Message > Ordering. Say between 2 physical node Ground-VMs across a network? > N

Re: [racket] Marketplace: A language for network-aware programming

2013-05-30 Thread Ray Racine
Quick browsed the doc this morning. Very happy to see this. Some novelty here I think. The Pub/Sub vs. say strict Actor Peer-To-Peer seems more flexible. Typed Endpoints and Handlers. Yea!! Looks like I can throw out some really half-baked code that addresses similar functionality as Marketpla

[racket] Marketplace: A language for network-aware programming

2013-05-29 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
We are happy to announce the release of Marketplace, a new programming language for building functional network programs. Marketplace combines two fundamental ideas in a new way: nested virtual machines and publish/subscribe messaging. Nesting allows programs to isolate processes and to delimit c