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Distributed systems programming has stalled

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287 points shadaj | 2 comments | 27 Feb 25 16:12 UTC | HN request time: 2.815s | source
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gklitt ◴[27 Feb 25 17:45 UTC] No.43196617[source]▶
This is outside my area of expertise, but the post sounds like it’s asking for “choreographic programming”, where you can write an algorithm in a single function while reasoning explicitly about how it gets distributed:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choreographic_programming

I’m curious to what extent the work in that area meets the need.

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1. roadbuster ◴[28 Feb 25 05:59 UTC] No.43202190[source]▶
How does "choreographic programming" differ from the actor model?
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2. LegionMammal978 ◴[01 Mar 25 04:52 UTC] No.43216053[source]▶
From what I can tell, the important distinction is that all actors (and their messages) are described alongside each other, instead of being described separately. There are many implementations of the actor model, but most of them are the 'static-location architectures' that TFA talks about.