guile-goblins-hoot

Spritely Goblins enables capability-based distributed actor programming in Guile Scheme. Define actors with fine-grained access control, spawn them across isolated vats, and communicate via inter-actor messaging. Compile to WASM with Hoot for portable, secure execution across distributed hosts.

Yes. Hoot compiles Guile Scheme to WASM, enabling portable runtimes for Goblins actors. This allows you to write capability-secure distributed systems in Scheme and deploy them as fast, portable WASM binaries across multiple hosts.

Capability-based security in Goblins provides fine-grained, object-level access control for distributed computation. Instead of checking roles or permissions globally, capabilities grant direct authority to invoke specific actor methods, reducing attack surface in distributed systems.

Goblins' distributed vat model isolates actors across hosts while maintaining secure inter-actor messaging and promise pipelining. Spawn vats on different machines, define actors within them, and invoke methods remotely—the framework handles capability-secure communication across the network.

Goblins is designed for distributed actor programming but assumes familiarity with Scheme and actor concepts. Start with defining a simple counter actor, spawning it, and invoking its methods to learn the core workflow before scaling to multi-host deployments.

Capability-based security in Goblins ensures that only actors holding a capability reference can invoke another actor's methods. This eliminates ambient authority vulnerabilities common in traditional distributed systems and ensures fine-grained access control across vat boundaries.