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by photonthug 693 days ago
Think about things like browser profiles or password managers that are kind of predicated on multi device and how none of that stuff is what you’d call zero setup. Does every app that wants to do this stuff need a key base or drop box backend? Is apps joining an ad hoc k8s network mesh or relying on a preexisting central redis or postgres or something really necessary for something like sharing data structures?

There’s definitely some room for interesting work here and language level support could be cool.

Elixir interpreter clustering and otp is maybe the closest existing thing, which is awesome but only for existing erlang fans.