I mean, I’ve written C that listens on port 80 and parses HTTP requests directly into SQLite op code but that is definitely not how it is working when you glue together a bunch of npm modules.
Just like how SQL gives you a faster way to not only store and search through binary trees but also to write the instructions to do so means that we should be able to do the same for web applications.
I’m not sure that most parts of a web application need to be Turing complete. User permissions? Data validation? Can’t we have GUI tools with a 1:1 mapping to more declarative code, ala SwiftUI? Why are we using a garbage collector for an HTTP request when we could just be freeing up memory after the response is sent?
Just like how SQL gives you a faster way to not only store and search through binary trees but also to write the instructions to do so means that we should be able to do the same for web applications.
I’m not sure that most parts of a web application need to be Turing complete. User permissions? Data validation? Can’t we have GUI tools with a 1:1 mapping to more declarative code, ala SwiftUI? Why are we using a garbage collector for an HTTP request when we could just be freeing up memory after the response is sent?