Project Renaissance: Avoid the Concurrency Trap by Embracing Non-Determinism

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The video from Channel9 in the 'Showcase' section features an interview of David Ungar, one of the brains behind the Self programming language. Self was influential for using the prototype model, now used by JavaScript. Also, Lars Bak, the guy behind V8, worked with Ungar. Here is a separate link to that video [1], since the tiny embedded video player seems to make viewing difficult.

Looks like this project Renaissance is stagnant (from the looks of the RoarVM github page), but does anyone know if this project has influenced other contemporary work?

[1] https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/SPLASH-2011-David-Un...

I wonder if this kind of research also translates to language design for quantum computers where determinism has to be sacrificed to a degree?

This will have a lot of positive impacts if these kinds of research are converted to some frameworks instead of a new language.

Like scala has STM support !!

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