Today after Guy Steele's keynote at Clojure/conj, and handful of folks went up to the stage to hang out and ask questions. It was quite a moment, really (so much so that I was pretty blissed out for several hours afterwards). I forget the question asked, but at one point Guy responded with an answer where he mentioned the π-Calculus.

In various previous and subsequent conversations, both LFE and Erlang came up where the points being made/joys being shared had to to with the very special strengths the BEAM provides due to its implementation of the π-Calculus (admittedly, without π-Calculus being mentioned per se).

There's a particular Clojure project I have touched on and off for almost two years now whose goal has been to follow up on earlier work that blended Clojure and Erlang – but to completely drop the dependency upon the Java implementation of the Erlang interface.

Now that I'm thinking about this again, I'm having new ideas on how to tackly the problem, purely with Clojure.

More soon ...