tmarble/posts/10000_Processes_in_Om.mdwn

   1 # 10,000 Processes in Om
   2
   3 I have just published [om-processes][om-processes] which
   4 is a port of David Nolen's [10,000 Processes][swannodette-10k]
   5 in [Clojurescript][clojurescript] to [Om][om].
   6
   7 Clojurescript is a port of [Clojure][clojure] to JavaScript which
   8 is especially well suited for running in a browser. Just as
   9 Clojure offers a pleasant LISP on the JVM Clojurescript
  10 offers (nearly the same) LISP in the browser. The performance
  11 of Clojurescript is outstanding due to the massive optimizations
  12 available from the [Google Closure compiler][closure].
  13
  14 JavaScript, however, has some fundamental flaws... Top
  15 among these are it is single threaded which leads to
  16 an asynchronous callback style of "event programming".
  17 Clojure's [core.async][core.async] offers a solution
  18 in the form of [CSP][csp] style programming. Using core.async
  19 one can *think* about coding in a more intuitive way.
  20
  21 In [10,000 Processes][swannodette-10k] Nolen demonstrates
  22 using core.async to simulate independent "threads" despite
  23 the fact that the underlying platform has no native
  24 support for threads.
  25
  26 In [Om][om] Nolen leverages [Facebook's React][react] to
  27 create a high performance, immutable model for client programming.
  28
  29 The technical study [om-processes][om-processes] is simply
  30 the fusion of all these ideas into one demonstration.
  31 Who knew web development could be so much fun!
  32
  33 [om-processes]: https://github.com/tmarble/om-processes
  34 [swannodette-10k]: http://swannodette.github.io/2013/08/02/100000-processes/
  35 [clojurescript]: http://github.com/clojure/clojurescript
  36 [om]: https://github.com/swannodette/om
  37 [clojure]: http://clojure.org
  38 [closure]: https://developers.google.com/closure/
  39 [core.async]: https://github.com/clojure/core.async/
  40 [csp]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_sequential_processes
  41 [react]: http://facebook.github.io/react/
  42
  43 [[!tag clojure clojurescript om]]