Sunday, November 09, 2014

The Future of C# and VB.NET (compiler/IDE)

The Future of C# and Visual Basic | TechEd Europe 2014 | Channel 9
"Project "Roslyn" is a complete renewal of the C# and Visual Basic compilers, exposing them as full fidelity APIs for everyone to use, and providing a great foundation for evolving the tool experience and the languages themselves."


This presentation explains that the internal AST (data structure of compiled code) is read-only, and as such modifications are thread-safe and can have multiple versions explored at the same time! Essentially write-only documents are much more effective for processing;  why not for storing and distribution also? This could apply to any document (and data), not only to source code!
Very interesting.




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Akka.NET: Actor Model for Distributed Systems (!)

Port of Akka for JVM (Java/Scala) to .NET; This may be useful for IoT.

Akka.NET is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and fault tolerant event-driven applications on .NET and Mono..


"The Actor Model provides a higher level of abstraction for writing concurrent and distributed systems. It alleviates the developer from having to deal with explicit locking and thread management, making it easier to write correct concurrent and parallel systems."
"High Performance:
50 million msg/sec on a single machine. Small memory footprint; ~2.5 million actors per GB of heap."


Podcast interview:



Related:
(Microsoft Azure) Project "Orleans" Samples - Home @ CodePlex