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by hencq
2792 days ago
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Syndicate seems very cool! Do you know if it's used by anyone or is it more of a research project at this stage? Am I right that the pattern seems very similar to re-frame [0] in Clojurescript? It seems like it might be an excellent way to develop web apps, especially since I see there's a javascript version as well. [0] https://github.com/Day8/re-frame |
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Re-frame does look similar, but Syndicate is general in the same way that the Actor model is general; DOM support and other "I/O devices" are bolt-on drivers, not built in to the core.
Syndicate does make a nice way to develop web apps; for example, the whatsapp-like chat app here https://github.com/tonyg/syndicate/tree/master/examples/webc... shows a few of the ideas, though it's only prototype/experimental quality. The new implementation ought to be suitable for making such applications "for real". See also the handful of in-browser demos, which naturally focus on web-ish things: http://syndicate-lang.org/examples/.
The Racket implementation has been used to implement not only the server side of the webchat app, but also a TCP/IP stack [1], an IRC server [2], and a side-scrolling platform game [3].
I'm afraid that there's very little documentation available (it is still a research project, after all!). You can read more about the ideas behind it here, though: http://syndicate-lang.org/tonyg-dissertation/.
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[1] https://github.com/tonyg/syndicate/tree/master/examples/nets...
[2] https://github.com/tonyg/syndicate/tree/master/examples/ircd
[3] https://github.com/tonyg/syndicate/blob/master/examples/plat...