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let's create the future: a minimal lisp based web

Name: Anonymous 2014-05-15 12:33

A simple new web (HTTP, HTML, JS) replacement based on s-expressions and lisp. It would be useful for things like file hosting, wikipedia/wikis, BBSs, online newpapers/blogs, imageboards, youtube/mediagoblin style video sites.

Instead of XML we use s-exp for markup. It will be a very simple functional markup language that could be defined in a page or two. We will not allow it to grow and grow horribly like the W3C to the point that it's impossible to implement from scratch.

Instead of javascript we use a simple lisp language (similar to R5RS without continuations) which is interpreted with strict resource and permission bounds, so it will never do anything you do not allow it including swamping your computer down like current js JIT systems.

For servers, instead of tools similar to PHP we will use systems inspired by type-checking that are able to statically ensure that no vulnerabilities in the class of XSS/SQL injection/... exist.

1. A first draft design needs to be created.

2. It should be easy to get something up and running quite fast by writing a proxy that translates all this s-exp stuff into HTML - just for the purpose of prototyping.

3. Reference implementations from scratch - focus on low memory usage and stability (using safe languages instead of C or C++).

Name: Anonymous 2014-05-18 0:40

Web coders mess up when serializing data.
Look, people mess up too when they write programs. Does that mean the compiler should be forgiving and create what it thinks the user means? No, this isn't Javashit's anally prolapsed type system.

If the standard can't handle their errors, then the site is broken and it becomes your problem if you need to use it in some way.
Then make sure your Sexp page actually makes sense before uploading it to your server? It's not that hard.

Would you have boycotted old /prog/ until someone fixed the malformed html in a few of the posts there?
Wasn't that what some people made with the <> thing in the title?

You seem to be under the wrong assumption this newly proposed web is targeted to epic Ruby ninjas. Incompetent brogrammers aren't supposed to make things for the new Lispweb.

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