Distributed System Daemons: More Than a Twinkle in Goblins' Eye
11 days ago
- Open Source
- Networking
- Distributed Computing
- Spritely Goblins aims to make networking easier and safer
- A project is underway to port the GNU Shepherd system layer to Guile Goblins
- The Shepherd manages system daemons running on Guix installations
- The integration of Goblins will empower the Shepherd with new abilities
- The project plans to allow distributed computing via Shepherd daemons on different machines
- The NLnet Foundation is providing support for this and other Spritely-related projects
- Whippet is a garbage collector project for Guile, enhancing performance
- Pre-Scheme is being modernized as a statically-typed systems programming language for Guile ecosystem
- The Shepherd port and other ongoing projects demonstrate a bright future for Spritely technology