lisp flavored languages for existing virtual machines.
Friday, October 17th, 2008im just watching the clojure (lisp flavored lang for the JVM) presentations from Rick Hickey.
then i found LFE lisp flavored erlang. i think i already mentioned Tim Burks Nu earlier.
(Rick Hickey also did dotlisp guess what? yup lisp for .net. there are also others e.g. IronLisp) so now we have a lisp for BEAM, JVM and the Objective-C runtime, seems like something that was in the air.
combine: there is a need for a dynamic language which is scalable but still can leverage existing code.
thinking a bit further and adding the other main stream approach to scale these days (virtualization) we get pushed to a new light-weight operating system which supports just a VM and basic IO like TCP/IP.
already with these large scale rails setups we have today, i see no point to have a fully featured OS with a 5+M LOC kernel running just to provide a VM which does just some calculating on proxied data from client data to its persistance.
hmm… erlang for minix 3 anyone?