GDgdamjan1·Nov 5, 2023
you can check out https://github.com/lunatic-solutions/lunatic for that
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Lunatic is an Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly
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What it is
Lunatic is an Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly
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So, I love Rust immensely, but it's a totally different style of programming than a functional language like Haskell. For example, Rust closures are absolutely not the same as…
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| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 11 | 7 | 4 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 9 | 1 | 8 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 0 | 6 |
What Hacker News says
6 sourcesHas anyone experimented with any Rust framework that implements Erlang's actor model in pure Rust? How well do they scale in distributed system? I know I've seen a few libraries such as:
Lunatic
https://github.com/lunatic-solutions/lunatic
Bastion
https://github.com/bastion-rs/bastion
In Write Elixir NIFs in RustElixir definitely!
If you need to use Go, there is also ergo: https://github.com/ergo-services/ergo
Yet another cool tool is lunatic: https://github.com/lunatic-solutions/lunatic
In Data Parallel, Task Parallel, and Agent Actor ArchitecturesThey don't, at least not yet. https://github.com/lunatic-solutions/lunatic/issues/150
It is WebAssembly based though, so it should be easier than trying to deal with dynamic libraries and Rust's ABI.
In Show HN: Ractor – a Rust-based actor framework with clusters and supervisorsLooks very nice!
How does it compare to lunatic https://github.com/lunatic-solutions/lunatic ? (besides wasm vs. native)
Also, what's the deployment story?
In Show HN: Ractor – a Rust-based actor framework with clusters and supervisorsI'm the author of something related https://github.com/lunatic-solutions/lunatic
In Erlang's not about lightweight processes and message passing