@Hosch250 I am about to start work today on some extensions to Futures and Isolates for Dyalog v17.0 which I hope will allow us to invoke APL functions in processes started using SSH. If I can see a way to integrate it cleanly, maybe firing up Docker containers on demand too.
@Hosch250 The ability to integrate this kind of thing (almost) at the language level is one reason why tools like the .NET TPL are not ideal: we might use them under the covers, but don't feel they are at the right level to present to APL users who are often domain experts and have little or no software engineering expertise.
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@MortenKromberg Definitely showcase that, please! The tutorial on APL microservices+ docker was very well received by friends of mine, who had it introduced to them pretty much as "This REPL thing" before :-).
@Adám I have a quick question. If I have Dyalog installed on Linux through an RPM package, will I be able to get updates to Dyalog through my package manager (dnf update) or will I have to apply for a license again and download a new RPM?
@Adám Let's just say it now, without codegolf, APL would be DEAD (like Fortress levels of dead) in modern usage, only staying alive through legacy codebases.
@Zacharý It is true that existing applications keep APL alive, but it isn't just maintenance that calls for APL programmers; there's active development of new code going on in companies that have already "seen the light". APL isn't going away.
@Zacharý As far as I know. Formal code golf is a fairly new subject to the APL world. I was the one that brought it into the established APL circles. An I only learned about it from HNQ.
@Zacharý According to Wikipedia, APLers were indeed first, and I remember how proud my father was of me when I beat the existing shortest prime number finder.
@Pavel Hard to measure. Google N-grams looks grim, but it looks in books, and there certainly hasn't been many APL books published lately. APL doesn't really need the massive bibles of other languages.
