So what we were going for with the core API is that it should be expressive enough for all kinds of distributed programming tasks, not just Spark-like or batch computing stuff.

We’re planning on doing several of these articles to show different applications. I think some distributed stream processing library would be super cool and there are lots of sources of inspiration for that like you mention. It would be a more interesting translation than the Spark-like stuff though. Likely using the channels ability for message passing.

> By the way, I really loved the FP in Scala book, it was my first step into FP -- thank you and Runar for writing it

That’s great to hear!