Ludovic Courtès writes: > Christopher Allan Webber <cweb...@dustycloud.org> skribis: > >> I wonder if it's about time that Guile get something along the lines of >> a well-supported, general event loop system? > > Sure. My take on this is that we want FRP, as implemented in Sly, or a > synchronous reactive API like HIPHOP¹. I wouldn’t want Guile to invite > users to use a JavaScriptish asynchronous framework with callbacks and > IoC all over the place. > > Then of course that’s a bit of work, including work to integrate that > with ports. > > Ludo’. > > ¹ http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/SS13/Sem-Prog/material/HIPHOP.pdf
HIPHOP looks interesting! And Sly is of course great, I'd love to see more Guile programs exploring that design. I haven't thought about what a web application that was Sly-like would look like. Just a side note: I don't know much about what IoC (presumably Inversion of Control) translates to in practice, though I can say that asyncio avoids callback hell pretty well through clever use of coroutines... it reduces some of thes stresses that node.js brings. I wonder if clever use of delimited continuations can allow us to also make things nice. - Chris
