Round 14: HTTP Adapter Layers and Concrete

Brock Wilcox - Survey and Philosophy of HTTP Adapter Layers

Overview of a technique for connecting your program to serving web pages. Rack, Ring, PSGI, WSGI, Clack, ...

Reed Spool - Concrete: A baby programming language

From the creator of the useless "URL Programming Language" comes the next pile of junk: "Concrete".

Simple language with some interesting quirks, for example: "3 2 + _" resolves to "3 2 + 5". Read more about the silliness here: https://github.com/reedspool/concrete-runtime

I'll walk through its construction entirely in Node.js, from the Peg.js parser, through the Bacon.JS guts, all the way to the Webpack'd web editor: http://goal-keeper-deborah-51172.bitballoon.com/ Perhaps simulating/actually implementing an actual feature on our journey.

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