Some time ago, Joe Armstrong wrote a thread-based binding to the X11 protocol called ex11. Every widget would run in its own thread and listen for messages. I k

Some time ago, Joe Armstrong wrote a thread-based binding to the X11 protocol called ex11. Every widget would run in its own thread and listen for messages. I keep on thinking about implementing something like that for the web. ex11 is available on Github (https://github.com/baryluk/ex11 https://github.com/baryluk/ex11) and there is a presentation (http://www.erlang.org/workshop/2004/ex11.pdf http://www.erlang.org/workshop/2004/ex11.pdf)