Get the latest tech news

Do Files want to be Actors?


Is 1970s distributed systems theory finally meeting 2020s kernel development?

Combined with an event loop, we have a new way of doing IO on linux without waiting on syscalls to complete before yielding back control to the program. Re-wind back to the 1970s, where Carl Hewitt and Henry Baker wrote the first paper about the actor model; Laws for Communicating Parallel Processes. Maybe making syscalls from 1970s Unix directly is like a remote procedure call to another machine - a leaky abstraction, a feeble attempt to impose your old mental model onto a new reality.

Get the Android app

Or read this on Hacker News

Read more on:

Photo of Files

Files

Photo of actors

actors

Related news:

News photo

OpenAI's o1-preview model manipulates game files to force a win against Stockfish in chess

News photo

Ted: Tool for editing files according to the rules of a provided Turing Machine

News photo

Files by Google has a new PDF viewer, and it's ditching Google Drive