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<civodul>hey! i’m getting: Uncaught (in promise) LinkError: import object field 'weak_ref_deref' is not a Function

<civodul>for the Hoot code at https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/

<civodul>does that ring a bell?

<dthompson>civodul: perhaps your reflect.js is out of date for hoot 0.6.0?

<dthompson>(having to manually sync these files should be a thing of the past soon)

<civodul>ah, could be, lemme check

<dthompson>weak_ref_deref is the name of a imported function in to the wasm module which is used by the hoot runtime. the error is saying in a somewhat confusing way that there's no function bound to that name

<dthompson>sync reflect.js and reflect.wasm

<civodul>yes

<civodul>works better now, thanks dthompson :-)

<dthompson>civodul: you're welcome and also sorry ;)

<civodul>i guess i could also have something in haunt.scm to copy them automatically

<dthompson>gotta write the tool to auto-generate this stuff

<civodul>for another day

<dthompson>we're gonna have a little bundle generator at some point

<civodul>that’d be nice!

<jfred>Aha! It's taking a little bit for me to get used to the constraints/requirements of persistence but I think I'm starting to get it

<jfred>Was confused as to why one of my objects seemingly wasn't getting rehydrated, but there are two vats involved here... an object in one vat was returning a reference to a newly spawned object, but *wasn't retaining a reference to the new object itself*

<jfred>and I guess as a result the new object wasn't getting persisted

<dthompson>tsyesika should be able to help with cross-vat persistence stuff

<tsyesika>Heh yeah it has to be in the object graph on the vat which is persisting it

<tsyesika>I actually haven’t run into this personally and hadn’t even considered it before

<jfred>I'll just have to save it in a ghash or something on the one vat

<jfred>but it had me scratching my head for a while haha

<tsyesika>I’m excited that you’re playing around with it and getting a feel for it tho

<jfred>:)

<tsyesika>I feel like a lot of the “how do you write persistent actors” and all the pitfalls you can run into are stuck in mine and Christine’s head. Ideally I write some blog posts or something to go over them

<jfred>the context was a dummy machine provider, and in a real implementation the new object would actually live on a completely new machine: https://git.sr.ht/~jfred/gobs-of-machines/tree/feat/persistence/item/gobs-of-machines/providers/dummy.scm

<dthompson>I think there should be less pitfalls :)

<jfred>but for now I have to fake it a bit, haha

<tsyesika>Mmm I’d love to hear your thoughts on that Dave :)

<dthompson>I need to use it more

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