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> Getting all this on a smart, distributed runtime seems very promising.

Hopefully it is.

This CPS article is the first of the Rama blog posts where it seemed like there might be something there. The earlier posts - "I built Twitter scale Twitter in 10Kloc" - were never really all that convincing. The thing they claimed to have built was too ambitious a claim.

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Oh I think there’s a lot of good stuff baked in there. The big idea downstream is that you have incrementally calculated, indexed data structures to query all the results of this fancy CPS logic. It’s all slightly esoteric even coming from a Clojure background but it ticks every box I want from a modern data platform, short of speaking SQL.

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