He's basically paraphrasing Greenspun's Tenth Rule: "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slo

He's basically paraphrasing Greenspun's Tenth Rule: "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp." Photon has, by construction, proven that it is possible to define fullstack web UIs as pure functional expressions despite crossing the client/server boundary, and this is done without adding in all that extra "React.js-era web framework stuff" (the travesty being discussed in this larger thread), instead using only the composition semantics of lambda that were established many decades ago. The best explanation of that is this 10 minute talk: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31217448 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31217448