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Interesting though it appears to be a straightforward server/client application so not sure why it's called distributed. That said I'm confused about what Objective-S is even after reading the about page (http://objective.st/About).

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The language on the website seems to be targeted to an audience with knowledge of a subset of languages. Instead it would help if it talked about the problem it seems to solve for a regular "general purpose" programmer.

Doesn't help that the author comes off as super defensive.

„ Client-server model is a distributed application structure …“

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client–server_model

I guess technically it's correct then. Distributed always makes me think of p2p systems.

Is it technically correct to call any app that writes to S3 a "distributed system"? It doesn't seem like distributed system in the "distributed computing" sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing

S3 is itself a distributed system, so yeah. You've got the two generals problem, it's distributed.

Oh good! That means I’m a distributed systems expert.

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