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I'm part of the Lisp/Scheme crowd. I don't use continuations in my web development, but I think you're stating things too strongly to say they should never be
by brlewis 19y ago
I'm part of the Lisp/Scheme crowd. I don't use continuations in my web development, but I think you're stating things too strongly to say they should never be used. I think it's easy to see the convenience of them, and rapid prototyping is important. When scalability becomes a big issue people will come up with a good way of serializing continuations.
- troels 19y agoYou're right that most existing web application frameworks (targeted at lisp or otherwise), use some sort of server side state mechanism. But that is not to say, that a rapid prototyping framework couldn't be made, which used solely client side state. Anyway, I am of course putting it a bit on the extreme end here, but in principle I stand by it. Continuations are but an elegant hack; I might prefer it over other similar hacks, but I'd rather not have to use it at all.