Hi all, I'd say Fractalide is in a state ready to use now. It's still very experimental so don't bet the house on it.
Fractalide is a flow-based programming platform implemented in Rust, it uses Nix as its package manager, and aims to thwart three classes of problems: Memory safety, Dependency Hell and Code Reuse (or lack thereof). Points of interest: *) First (?) language designed to use nix as its package manager. **) Each component can setup its own OS dependencies (say openssl, db drivers etc) **) The repo is lazily evaluated thus can expand massively and you only compile what is needed (similar to nixpkgs) *) Components have capnproto contracts between them, (in an effort to implement some semblance of the langsec.org know how. We also use the nom parser combinator, as a second langsec muscle flex) *) Its implemented in Rust, so you get to safely have your cake and speedily eat it. *) This kind of platform elevates the concept of devops to new levels imho. *) We use nix to replace make. *) We're currently implementing a hypercard whereby we swap out hypertalk for flow-based programming, so feedback is desired. This allows for fancy graphics. Happy hacking! /sjm _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
