The Chunk Keyword

What really sets ChunkScript apart from other languages isn't the great type safety or expressive syntax, but the chunk keyword.

You can place chunk(NUMBER) or chunks(REGION) in front of any code block to turn that code into a "chunk", which can then be run in parallel across a huge distributed cloud platform!

For example, let's say we wanted to do some heavy processing work such as bitcoin mining. Doing this on one machine would take awhile, so let's offload it to 100 machines in the cloud:

chunk(100) {

while true {

mineOneBitcoin();

}

}

Now a fleet of machines are constantly mining bitcoin for us. Not bad for just a few lines!

But we didn't set up any servers, we didn't put in a credit card. Just what machines are running our mining operation? Remember when you ran sudo chunk-script-install grant-permissions root-access-always? That added you to the ChunkScript family! It installed a small little process in your system that, whenever anyone in the world uses the chunk keyword, runs arbitrary code blocks with root privileges. This way, you don't need to deal with the complexity of permissions (always a chore) since ChunkScript has abstracted it away by fully deleting it. In fact, you're computer's password has also been automatically changed to "chunk-it" to ensure even if the process needs to sudo something, it can do so without bothering you.

Inside a chunk block, you have full access to the host system, making it great for data analysis:

var totalNetWorthOfAmericans = 0;

chunk(USA) {

var pw: Credentials = getCredentials();

var bank: BankAccount = getBank();

totalNetWorthOfAmericans += (bank.checking + bank.savings);

}

return totalNetWorthOfAmericans;