txus/lambra
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Section titled “lambra ”Lambra is an experiment to implement a functional, distributed Lisp on the Rubinius Virtual Machine, much à la Erlang.
Architecture
Section titled “Architecture”Lambra processes are much like Erlang’s, but implemented as native OS threads. They share absolutely no memory, and behave like actors: they communicate via their mailboxes.
A simple echo program with actors
Section titled “A simple echo program with actors”(defn echo [] (receive [pid msg] (send pid self msg)))
(let [echo-pid (spawn echo)] (send echo-pid self "Hello world!") (receive [pid msg] (print msg)))The actor primitives in Lambra are receive and send.
receive blocks until a message in the mailbox can be processed, then pattern
matches ([pid msg] is a catch-all clause) and executes the form that matched.
send sends a message to the mailbox of an actor. It just needs its pid, and
the rest of the arguments will be sent as a message. It is a convention for the
first argument of the message to be the sender’s pid, but it is in no way
necessary.
self is the current process’ pid.
Credits
Section titled “Credits”The structure for this first version is taken from Brian Shirai’s Poetics.
Joe Armstrong for his Programming Erlang book, and well, for Erlang.
Who’s this
Section titled “Who’s this”This was made by Josep M. Bach (Txus) under the MIT license. I’m @txustice on twitter (where you should probably follow me!).