Distributed Computing (proposal)

AY 20/21 Sem 2 CS4215 Project: Distributed Computing for Source

Idea: Introduce Promises in Source 2 to facilitate distributed computing.

User Stories

User Story 1: Simple Display

• Student A executes:

function my_shared_function(x) {
   display(x);
}
share(my_shared_function); // returns access-token

• REPL displays the access token "2e7d5196-bc90-4482-9b9f-749b6c23b089"
• Student A sends the access token to Student B (e.g. through Telegram)
• Student B executes:

const promise = connect("2e7d5196-bc90-4482-9b9f-749b6c23b089"); 
then(promise, shared_function_from_a =>
    shared_function_from_a("hi there");
}

• Student A sees "hi there" in their REPL