1. An information processing system capable of supporting resilient execution of applications written in a programming language with exception handling, the information processing system comprising: memory; persistent memory for storing data and computer instructions; a resilient store, communicatively coupled with the memory and the persistent memory, wherein application state information stored in the resilient store can be accessed in response to detection of a failure of an application executing in the information processing system; a resilient executor, communicatively coupled with the memory and the persistent memory, for executing computations of applications while detecting failures in the execution of the computations; and a processor, communicatively coupled with the resilient executor, the resilient store, the memory, the persistent memory, and wherein the processor, responsive to executing computer instructions, performs operations comprising: periodically checkpointing an application state in the resilient store; executing, with the resilient executor, computations of the application while detecting failures in the execution of the computations, wherein the resilient executor includes computer code which is part of the application; restoring, based on the resilient executor detecting a failure in the execution of a computation of the application by catching with said computer code at least one exception, application state information for the application from a checkpoint in the resilient store; and resuming, with the resilient executor, execution of the computation of the application with the restored application state information.