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Re: Lightning talk at IPFS camp


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: Lightning talk at IPFS camp
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2019 22:10:27 +0200
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Konrad Hinsen <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> 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.

Oh right, I had overlooked that aspect of the project.  Interesting!

Ludo’.



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