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"Parse JSON from a request that arrived over HTTP" is not a major task in any language that's seen serious use since 2002. And if they had done this they would
by erik_seaberg 9y ago
"Parse JSON from a request that arrived over HTTP" is not a major task in any language that's seen serious use since 2002. And if they had done this they would have support for a dozen better languages literally overnight.
The industry has way too many frameworks that should have been protocols.
- philwelch 9y agoI’m curious which dozen languages you find better than the ones supported by Lambda.
- mi100hael 9y agoThe point is that no one would have to be debating which languages should be supported by Lambda if they made their environment language-agnostic based on a protocol rather than a bunch of individual libraries.
- electricEmu 9y ago.NET Core 2.0, until _very_ recently.
- eadmund 9y agoCommon Lisp. Until just now, Go. I hear great things about Java 9. TCL. Rebol. Smalltalk. That's half a dozen (-ish); I'll let someone else complete it.
- brabel 9y agoTCL, Smalltalk, Rebol??? So they could support all 5 users of these languages? Lol
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