Lambda the Ultimate

Google Web Toolkit, which compiles Java to JavaScript for running code in the browser, now includes Code Splitting, for reducing application download time:

To split your code, simply insert calls to the method GWT.runAsync at the places where you want the program to be able to pause for downloading more code. These locations are called split points.

A call to GWT.runAsync is just like a call to register any other event handler. The only difference is that the event being handled is somewhat unusual. Instead of being a mouse-click event or key-press event, the event is that the necessary code has downloaded for execution to proceed.

(i thought i read a comment on LtU about Franz, but can't find it now.)

Lagoona apparently addresses some issues around component-oriented approaches to systems development, and has roots in Niklaus Wirth's works such as Oberon. Is anybody on LtU more familiar with this stuff, such that they could opine / compare / contrast?

(tags like: "component-oriented", "distributed extensibility", "decentralized", sorta beyond-OO, that kind of fun kool-aid.)