Stargazer: understanding the π-calculus, visually (opens in new tab)

The pi-calculus is a mathematical formalization of concurrent programs in the same way that lambda calculus is a formalization of computable functions. It is basically a notation that allows you to easily specify concurrent programs, and then rigorously reason about them.

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It's regrettable that π looks similar to n, however I think it's a very minor issue that is resolved the second that you click the link.

Only if you use terrible fonts.

In college I was fascinated by the Join calculus, in particular it's research implementation in Polyphonic C# and its successors.