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AmbientTalk: modern actors for modern networks ( FTfJP '12 )
| Content Provider | ACM Digital Library |
|---|---|
| Author | Van Cutsem, Tom |
| Abstract | We introduce AmbientTalk, a dynamic, object-oriented, distributed programming language. AmbientTalk focuses primarily on the domain of mobile peer-to-peer applications, which are becoming more and more widespread in the wake of smartphone platforms such as iOS and Android. AmbientTalk runs on Android, and can be thought of as a scripting language for that platform. We will discuss AmbientTalk's roots and devote special attention to its concurrent and distributed language features, which are founded on the actor model. Next, we will showcase the language by explaining a peer-to-peer application. We show how resilient mobile applications can be constructed with familiar building blocks like objects and messages, but also in what way these building blocks have to be adapted to fit the characteristics of mobile networks. For the past six years, we have been using AmbientTalk as a research and teaching platform at the Software Languages Lab of the University of Brussels. We will close the talk by relating our experiences in designing and using the language. |
| Starting Page | 2 |
| Ending Page | 2 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| ISBN | 9781450312721 |
| DOI | 10.1145/2318202.2318204 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| Publisher Date | 2012-06-12 |
| Publisher Place | New York |
| Access Restriction | Subscribed |
| Subject Keyword | Futures Mobile networks Peer-to-peer Actors Event loops |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
