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    Suspend in the browser, resume on the desktop. ☶ browsers distributed programming thiscontext.com
    patrickdlogan avatar via patrickdlogan 1 year ago | cached | 4 comments

As with Gambit Scheme, Smalltalk supports moving live objects between the browser and a desktop or server.

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    bsima avatar bsima 1 year ago | link

    How does Gambit Scheme do this?

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      doublec avatar doublec 1 year ago | link

      Gambit has serializable continuations. You can serialize the current continuation and deserialize and call it in another process.

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        patrickdlogan avatar patrickdlogan edited 1 year ago | link

        Yes, serialized continuations and just procedures combined with its “universal backend” for JavaScript, Python, PHP, etc.

        Gambit compiles to a Gambit Virtual Machine instruction set. Gambit-C compiles that to native C. The universal backend implements the GVM in each of the supported runtimes.

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      nickpsecurity avatar nickpsecurity 1 year ago | link

      I wasn’t aware of Lam Research before this post. That’s neat that they use Smalltalk in their control systems. Quite an endorsement given that sector doesn’t tolerate errors in software.