On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 5:22 PM, ivo welch <ivo.we...@anderson.ucla.edu> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Páll Haraldsson <pall.haralds...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> what is it you want? Why is web-programming special? And wouldn't Julia be >> as least as good a fit (for server side) as any other language? > > I do not want to hijack the julia list, so I will be short.
I don't either, so I'll be even shorter. > > imho, a web language should allow you to pretend that you are programming > the GUI on a single desktop. That's kind of the idea behind Node.js, isn't it? Sounds like the mother of all leaky abstractions to me. -- Matt Gushee