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Programming language: Haskell

License: BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

Tags: Concurrency Distributed Computing

Latest version: v0.1.0.6

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Butter

For easily spreading around monadic computation

Examples

Example Language usage in test/first/Main.hs
Example Protocol usage in test/protocol/Main.hs ## Current Language Features Actor Monad Transformer that supports
self
send
receive
- selective based on type
- yields on empty receive or type mismatch
spawn
- built on Forkable-Monad and forkIO
lift
named pids
connect to remote
- send via named

Current Library Features

Protocol (OTP Genserver like typeclass)
- explicit State type family
- explicit Monadic Context type family
- Results API

Future Core Language Features

monitor
serializable computation typeclass
- spawn remote
- monitor remote
query remote
encrypted message passing by default
- config to change encode and decode

Future Library Features

quasiquoter / convenience Syntax
OTP
- supervisor trees
haddock documentation
versioned tutorial series

butter

A distributed computation monad transformer