[ANN] Okku 0.1.5 - Akka from Clojure

2015-11-19 Thread Gary Verhaegen
Okku, the Clojure (thin) wrapper for Akka. Github: https://github.com/gaverhae/okku Leiningen: [org.clojure.gaverhae/okku "0.1.5"] New in this release: * Updated Akka dependency to 2.3.14 * Updated Clojure dependency to 1.7.0 * Support for Akka's ask pattern Thanks go to

Re: Akka-like framework in Clojure ?

2014-01-02 Thread Manuel Paccagnella
I think I'd be very useful since understanding Clojure's design philosophy is of great value, even outside the Clojure(Script) camp. But I also think it'd require work from a certain number of volunteers (sounds like a wiki would be a useful tool for this). There has been some work in this

Re: Akka-like framework in Clojure ?

2013-12-31 Thread Jakub Holy
I too have heard that using Akka from Clojure is not so easy, see Distributed Actors in Clojurehttp://martinsprogrammingblog.blogspot.no/2012/05/distributed-actors-in-clojure.html(5/2012) – a discussion of options for Akka-like stuff in Clojure. Akka is great but “interfacing to Akka from

Re: Akka-like framework in Clojure ?

2013-12-31 Thread Cedric Greevey
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Jakub Holy jakub.h...@iterate.no wrote: I also believe that Rich Hickey has some good reasons for why / when not to use actor-based concurrency. I cannot find the reference now, perhaps it is mentioned (also) in the StrangeLoop 2013 Clojure core.async

Re: Akka-like framework in Clojure ?

2013-12-29 Thread Joshua Ballanco
On Saturday, December 28, 2013 at 6:05, kovas boguta wrote: The bottom line is that the definitive clojure distributed computing solution is yet to be invented, but there are a number of things out there including the aforementioned. 1. clojure wrappers for Akka, for instance https

Akka-like framework in Clojure ?

2013-12-27 Thread Eric Le Goff
Hi, After a long background with imperative languages such as Java, I recently spent some time learning functionnal programming, starting with Scala. I had the opporrtunity to build a demo project based on the Akka framework. Now I am starting learning Clojure, and would be curious to know

Re: Akka-like framework in Clojure ?

2013-12-27 Thread Tim Visher
Hi Eric, On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Eric Le Goff eleg...@gmail.com wrote: After a long background with imperative languages such as Java, I recently spent some time learning functionnal programming, starting with Scala. I had the opporrtunity to build a demo project based on the Akka

Re: Akka-like framework in Clojure ?

2013-12-27 Thread Jan Herich
had the opporrtunity to build a demo project based on the Akka framework. Now I am starting learning Clojure, and would be curious to know if there was some clojure based framework available which could implement rather similar features to Akka. In particular, I would be interested

Re: Akka-like framework in Clojure ?

2013-12-27 Thread Tibor Mlynarik
a long background with imperative languages such as Java, I recently spent some time learning functionnal programming, starting with Scala. I had the opporrtunity to build a demo project based on the Akka framework. Now I am starting learning Clojure, and would be curious to know

Re: Akka-like framework in Clojure ?

2013-12-27 Thread Bruno Kim Medeiros Cesar
I haven't dabbled yet on actor-based concurrency, can someone point out (a blog post about) a comparison between Akka actors, Clojure agents and other solutions? On Friday, December 27, 2013 6:54:16 AM UTC-2, Eric Le Goff wrote: Hi, After a long background with imperative languages

Re: Akka-like framework in Clojure ?

2013-12-27 Thread Paulo Suzart
) a comparison between Akka actors, Clojure agents and other solutions? On Friday, December 27, 2013 6:54:16 AM UTC-2, Eric Le Goff wrote: Hi, After a long background with imperative languages such as Java, I recently spent some time learning functionnal programming, starting with Scala. I

Re: Akka-like framework in Clojure ?

2013-12-27 Thread Alex Baranosky
You can just use Akka directly w/ Clojure's excellent Java interop. On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Paulo Suzart paulosuz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Am I wrong or Galaxy project (behind pulsar) is quite inactive? Does anybody know how promising are they? Cheers On 27 December 2013 17:32

Re: Akka-like framework in Clojure ?

2013-12-27 Thread kovas boguta
The bottom line is that the definitive clojure distributed computing solution is yet to be invented, but there are a number of things out there including the aforementioned. 1. clojure wrappers for Akka, for instance https://github.com/jasongustafson/akka-clojure (there are several others

[ANN] Okku 0.1.0 - Akka interface for Clojure

2012-07-21 Thread Gary Verhaegen
Okku is a thin wrapper around the Akka library that makes it easy to use it from Clojure. The Actor model can be considered a nice alternative for concurrent programming, but it really shines when you want to distribute your application - it really is nearly transparent. As the version number

Re: [ANN] Okku 0.1.0 - Akka interface for Clojure

2012-07-21 Thread dennis zhuang
Great work.Thanks. 2012/7/20 Gary Verhaegen gary.verhae...@gmail.com Okku is a thin wrapper around the Akka library that makes it easy to use it from Clojure. The Actor model can be considered a nice alternative for concurrent programming, but it really shines when you want to distribute

Re: [ANN] Okku 0.1.0 - Akka interface for Clojure

2012-07-21 Thread dennis zhuang
gary.verhae...@gmail.com Okku is a thin wrapper around the Akka library that makes it easy to use it from Clojure. The Actor model can be considered a nice alternative for concurrent programming, but it really shines when you want to distribute your application - it really is nearly transparent

Re: [ANN] Okku 0.1.0 - Akka interface for Clojure

2012-07-21 Thread Gary Verhaegen
org.clojure.gaverhae:okku:jar:0.1.1-SNAPSHOT in clojars (https://clojars.org/repo/) Should i use 0.1.0? 2012/7/21 dennis zhuang killme2...@gmail.com Great work.Thanks. 2012/7/20 Gary Verhaegen gary.verhae...@gmail.com Okku is a thin wrapper around the Akka library that makes it easy to use

Re: akka

2011-02-23 Thread Saul Hazledine
On Feb 23, 1:17 am, Mark Engelberg mark.engelb...@gmail.com wrote: 3. What is Clojure's state-of-the-art for building distributed, fault-tolerant systems with its existing feature set and/or leveraging popular libraries? I've not used it, but jobim is worth looking at since it brings together

akka

2011-02-22 Thread Mark Engelberg
I've just spent the afternoon perusing the docs for Akka 1.0 (akka.io), which was recently announced. It's a library written in Scala for building distributed, fault-tolerant systems. The library offers both a Scala API and a straight Java API. Interestingly, Akka borrows heavily from Clojure