[erlang-questions] What is the point of Spawn(Node, Fun) if Node has to have the same module loadable as a client node?

[Richard A. O'Keefe]

On 6/09/16 5:23 PM, Alex Arnon wrote:
> Would an Erlang AST do it?

You missed the point.
We *have* an Erlang AST.
That can, of necessity, express ANYTHING that Erlang can.
The great benefit of a mini-language is that it CAN'T.
In general, such a mini-language

>     is a *scrutible* data structure in which general
>     Bad Things simply aren't expressible

Accepting code from a remote source is always a risk,
UNLESS it is tightly constrained so that you KNOW even
before you look that it can't be so very bad.
For example, if you want to write some sort of
distributed game, and have players send "scripts" for
their pieces to a game server, you want to KNOW that
the scripts execute in bounded time and can only do
game-related stuff.