Aneris, Ceres update & more (for the end of the year)

Aneris

Aneris is a simple AST walking interpreter, that supports delimited continuations, W7, POSIX & most everything that Vesta does. I created it as a useful test of E-prime's & Enyo's ability to meaningfully compile preDigamma programs. The nice thing about Aneris is that it doesn't use any code that is specific to preDigamma, and, as such, it can run itself. I'm pretty happy with the way it came out.

Ceres

Ceres has been updated to support the full W7 system, as well as continuations (it had delimited continuations before). I hope that I'll be able to release Ceres, Vesta, E-prime, & Aneris early-2011.

Grid Computing

I've been using the SHARK (Scheme Hacks Against Raging Kingdoms *or* Scheme High Availability Research Kit) Grid for some time now; I hope to allow users to log in shortly after I release Digamma. I hope to add serializable environments to Vesta/Aneris/Ceres before then, so that grid nodes can fail & still hold the vast majority of a user's state (esp. since snap shotting the VM on a regular basis & storing to SHARK's data nodes shouldn't be that big of an issue). 

2011 & Beyond

Once I've released the Digamma environment, I'll move towards an IPN-style format here: the blog will start hosting my experiments & labs that focus on using Digamma in the "real world," as well as the usual developments wrt compilers, interpreters, operating systems & language design. 

Happy 2011!