[erlang-questions] Erlang VM in Rust

[Grzegorz Junka]

Is it only me who thinks that implementing an actor-oriented functional 
language in an object-oriented C++ is kind of weird?

GrzegorzJ


On 25/09/2017 22:22, Karlo Kuna wrote:
> sure thing, it is matter of taste and experience and whole lot of factors
> i agree that compile times are abysmal (that's due C legacy which was 
> major goal for C++ and of course hardware limitations back in 80's)
>
> but for me quality of interfaces that you can achieve is stunning 
> (again my view)
>
> to add criticism, macros should be banished, and OOP is overused in 
> C++, implicit conversions are not nice, visitor pattern is problem, etc.
> discipline is the thing in c++
>
> but as it has memory model defined, lifetime management and things 
> like that i think it would be good fit for implementing erlang for IoT
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 11:53 PM, Oliver Korpilla 
> <Oliver.Korpilla@REDACTED <mailto:Oliver.Korpilla@REDACTED>> wrote:
>
>     Hi.
>
>     This is, of course, something that can easily devolve into a holy
>     war where everyone clamors for their favorite programming language.
>
>     But cannot resist... XD
>
>     I never felt empowered by C++ templates. I find that code written
>     heavily depending on templates to drastically decrease in
>     readability (and hence maintainability) while the compile times of
>     C++ are just plain horrible (btw a side effect of how templates
>     were put into the language in the first place). It has been a
>     major pain at my workplace when it comes to running continuous
>     integration.
>
>     I learned about a dozen languages well enough to do projects in
>     them, and C++ will always be the ugly one that I want to get away
>     from but which is without alternative in the minds of project
>     managers.
>
>     *ducks*
>
>     Oliver
>
>
>
>
>
>     Gesendet: Montag, 25. September 2017 um 23:38 Uhr
>     Von: "Karlo Kuna" <kuna.prime@REDACTED <mailto:kuna.prime@REDACTED>>
>     An: "Erlang-Questions Questions" <erlang-questions@REDACTED
>     <mailto:erlang-questions@REDACTED>>
>     Betreff: Re: [erlang-questions] Erlang VM in Rust
>
>     Just to add a voice in this discussion ,
>     i would love to see c++ implementation of erlang, and it soul be
>     possible due power of templates get much more
>     safe and easily extendible code base IMHO. It would require lot of
>     expertise and _discipline_  but i cold be fun project
>
>     also I wold love to have erlang implementation for IoT, as erlang
>     seems to be great fit for that
>     for this one i am with Joe, we need something small portable (and
>     written in c++ of course)
>
>
>     On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 11:15 PM, Richard A. O'Keefe
>     <ok@REDACTED
>     <mailto:ok@REDACTED>[mailto:ok@REDACTED
>     <mailto:ok@REDACTED>]> wrote:
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>     On 25/09/17 10:41 PM, Attila Rajmund Nohl wrote:2017-09-23 9:28
>     GMT+02:00 Oliver Korpilla <Oliver.Korpilla@REDACTED
>     <mailto:Oliver.Korpilla@REDACTED>[mailto:Oliver.Korpilla@REDACTED
>     <mailto:Oliver.Korpilla@REDACTED>]>:
>     [...]Having said that I see no immense security risk in writing
>     code for a remote sensor in C. It avoids one of the prime security
>     risks: human user interactions and all the buffer overrun problems
>     and string processing stuff that is so hard to do safely that
>     there are still books being written about.
>     If it is connected to the internet (the first letter in IoT), then it
>     at least needs to handle IPv4 - and it involves parsing of potentially
>     untrusted data.
>     The remote sensors I am interested in are *not* connected to the
>     internet.  They are connected via radio to each other and to base
>     stations, and the base stations may then be connected to the
>     internet (probably using an OS and IP stack written in C).
>
>     There is a serious point here that *end* devices are likely to be
>     as small as you can get away with.  Instead of spending money on
>     bigger/faster machines, it's rather more useful to have *more*
>     machines that are just capable enough to do the job.
>
>     Other people may be interested in other things.
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