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From: Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>,
	"Pierre Neidhardt" <mail@ambrevar.xyz>,
	Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Lightning talk at IPFS camp
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2019 15:48:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1k1dx5wx2.fsf@fastmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874l51h8ms.fsf@gnu.org>

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.

Konrad.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-07 13:48 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 [this message]
2019-06-07 20:10                 ` Ludovic Courtès
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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