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To take lisp based web development to another level, what if we had a "browser" environment that embedded racket and executed sandboxed code instead of JavaScri
by sriku 9y ago
To take lisp based web development to another level, what if we had a "browser" environment that embedded racket and executed sandboxed code instead of JavaScript/html? (Goes back to dreaming)
- pjmlp 9y agoWe had a taste of them in the past, Xerox PARC created Ethernet and their workstations (Interlisp-D, Smalltalk, Mesa/Cedar) offered some support for interactive objects across network. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoteCards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoteCards http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/UbiHome.html http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/UbiHome.html Which is why Alan Kay is not a big fan of the Web as such, "The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs." -- http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/interview-with-alan-kay/240003442# http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/interview-wit...
- dualogy 9y ago> The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs. Which (like it or not --- I jump back & forth myself) is probably why it took off as explosively as it did..
- moron4hire 9y agohttps://www.hashcollision.org/whalesong/ https://www.hashcollision.org/whalesong/ it's a little stale, though. This is the latest repo: https://github.com/soegaard/whalesong https://github.com/soegaard/whalesong