Syndicated Actors

As of crates syndicate v0.44.0-rc.6 and syndicate-macros v0.35.0-rc.4, and in conjunction with the new cargo -Zscript feature, it is now possible to write single-file Rust Syndicate services that can be started from syndicate-server as separate processes.

🎉🎉🎉 Back in July last year, more than two years (!)

The Syndicated Actor Model (SAM) claims to enable conversations between software actors.

Emery Hemingway came up with an excellent hack for getting udev to automatically populate a dataspace with assertions describing the devices attached to a Linux system.

A gatekeeper in Syndicate terminology is an object that “upgrades” long-lived cryptographic names into live references to some underlying object.

The Syndicate ecosystem includes a few ways of gluing together dataspaces over a network.

In the #spritely IRC channel, mala mentioned the multiaddr specification.

Since last time, I’ve managed to shrink the boilerplate for experimenting with Syndicate in the browser a little further.

To make experimenting with Syndicate/JS a bit easier, I’ve just dusted off an old idea: getting the compiler from JavaScript with Syndicate DSL extensions down to plain JavaScript to run in the browser.

I’ve just released syndicate-pty-driver, a small Rust program that responds to a Syndicate protocol for allocating PTYs and spawning subprocesses attached to them.