From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Lightning talk at IPFS camp
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2019 22:10:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d0jpb1ho.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1k1dx5wx2.fsf@fastmail.net> (Konrad Hinsen's message of "Fri, 07 Jun 2019 15:48:09 +0200")
Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> (They could have chosen Guile instead of a custom Lisp, but that’s an
>> “implementation detail”. :-))
>
> From my reading of the whitepaper, no. They have pretty strict
> constraints on their language because they send live code updates
> to running instances and want to be able to make certain guarantees.
> Guile, or any other Scheme, would be too flexible.
Oh right, I had overlooked that aspect of the project. Interesting!
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-07 20:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-30 7:07 Lightning talk at IPFS camp Pierre Neidhardt
2019-05-31 22:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-03 15:15 ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-06-03 16:19 ` Pronaip
2019-06-03 18:53 ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-06-06 8:13 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-06-06 12:15 ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-06-06 12:36 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-06-06 16:53 ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-06-07 12:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-07 13:48 ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-06-07 20:10 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-06-07 12:41 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-07 13:45 ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-06-13 21:38 ` ng0
2019-06-24 20:37 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-06-26 12:19 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-06-27 14:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-27 22:04 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-07-01 10:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
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