What Twisted could learn from Kamaelia.
Two awesome things: Twisted , and Kamaelia . I will not compare them. They are different, and have different purposes, and as I said. Both are great. I have recently been playing with Kamaelia for the first time. If you don't know what Kamaelia is check out http://www.kamaelia.org/ but I admit it does take some getting my head around. (Just like Twisted did, back in the day when I first came across it.) But persevere. Kamaelia is a library for creating highly concurrent applications. And along the way it has reminded me of: Erlang, Tasklets and Twisted. It has a highly componentized approach where components communicate with eachother using inboxes and message passing. That's all I'll say about it here. I am sure I will blog more as I use it more. Now the first thing I want to do with Kamaelia is be able to hook it up with GTK, and I have managed to do that, but it was incredibly easy. Why? Because Kamaelia is happy to run its scheduler in the background in a non-main thre...