On 05/04/2012 02:07 PM, Federico Lucifredi wrote:
Pragmatic Programmers has just announced a book on distributed
programming in Ruby. Somewhat the possibility never occurred to me :)
I am wondering, is there some obvious reason, like a well-structured library or language property, that makes one of the dynamic languages a better option that the others for distributed computing? I am not thinking HPC, more like remote method invocation.
it is much easier than most people realize. the key is a simple message passing api. that allows for local or remote calls without changing the code. then you can do your work in one process or distributed with little extra help. this is a library thing and not something needed in the language. so the quality of the library matters as much as anything else and that means knowing how to design such a beast.
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