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That's more or less a dynamically-typed version of what we had with Opalang ~15 years ago and it worked great. Happy to see that someone else has picked the ide

by Yoric 1y ago

That's more or less a dynamically-typed version of what we had with Opalang ~15 years ago and it worked great. Happy to see that someone else has picked the idea of sending capabilities, including server->client calls!

kentonv 1y ago
FWIW, Cap'n Proto is a statically-typed version of this that has been around since 2013, and is actually used heavily in the implementation of Cloudflare Workers.
- Yoric 1y ago
  Ah, thanks, I wasn't aware of that. That won't prevent me from bragging, as we released Opalang 1.0 in 2011 :)
  - kentonv 1y ago
    I think Mark S Miller beat us both by like 10-20 years with CapTP. ;)
    - Yoric 1y ago
      Not on multi-tier web applications, though :) (but yeah, I was passingly familiar with E! when I designed the capability system of Opalang, so I definitely don't get full bragging rights)