From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Hack the (init) system! Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 15:02:13 +0200 Message-ID: <87h9mh49m2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87oahjz05m.fsf@gnu.org> <874mjb0wvm.fsf@netris.org> <87a8t2wfod.fsf@gnu.org> <87k2rertcf.fsf@dustycloud.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41736) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zfp7M-0005JX-DY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2015 09:02:21 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zfp7J-0001l8-7G for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2015 09:02:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87k2rertcf.fsf@dustycloud.org> (Christopher Allan Webber's message of "Fri, 25 Sep 2015 18:04:33 -0500") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Christopher Allan Webber Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Christopher Allan Webber 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 HIPHOP=C2=B9. I wouldn=E2=80=99t want Guile = to invite users to use a JavaScriptish asynchronous framework with callbacks and IoC all over the place. Then of course that=E2=80=99s a bit of work, including work to integrate th= at with ports. Ludo=E2=80=99. =C2=B9 http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/SS13/Sem-Prog/material/HIPHOP.pdf