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Oni is a framework for managing the control flow of concurrent applications. There are two central ideas to Oni: To make concurrent actions composable by implementing 'pseudo-sequential' control structures with which asynchronous actions can be choreographed in the same way in which traditional sequential control structures are used to choreograph conventional synchronous actions. Ok, I'm not sure I even understand that myself. But please read on anyway :-) To leverage the facilities of a "host language" rather than implement a complete programming language from scratch. Oni can be implemented as a set of functions ("Oni operators") in a suitable host language, such as JavaScript or C++ (any reasonable language will do). Our current implementation, dubbed Oni/JS, is in JavaScript, targeted at in-browser use (should work in any modern browser - FF, Chrome, Safari, IE, ...). Oni requires no preprocessing or precompilation; an Oni program is a just an expression in the host language.