I started groping toward the message-passing idea (or, more correctly, groping toward coming to terms with it as a viable idea) late last year, and put an incomplete, impure, frankly bad, first whack at it inside a buildbot I wrote for work. Out of that experience came the solid ideas for Roundabout, which I started writing down around mid-January.

Now, suddenly, people all over the Perl world (mostly people I’d never heard of until blogs.perl.org opened up) are talking about message passing and systems with worker processes and such. No one’s taking quite the same tack as me, so far as I can see, so I’m going ahead with my plans and ideas no matter what.

It’s just interesting. Is it real synchronicity, or only perceived? :)