Towards A Systems Approach To Distributed Programming.

It is undeniable that most developers today are building distributedapplications. However, most of these applications are developed by composingexisting systems together through unspecified APIs exposed to the applicationdeveloper. Systems are not going away: they solve a particular problem and mostapplications today need to rely on several of these systems working in concert.Given this, we propose a research direction where higher-level languages withwell defined semantics target underlying systems infrastructure as amiddle-ground.