[parenscript-devel] The next frontier?

[Axel Rauschmayer]

Sounds good. I always feel a bit weird pushing my vision when I have no time to contribute. I think a few stars are currently aligning to make Common Lisp an intriguing platform:

- The JVM-based ABCL is making tremendous progress.
- Parenscript can be used to write CL-based browser applications.
- Web applications are becoming increasingly viable, Google's Chrome OS will probably plug many of the holes that still exist.

So, in the mid-term future, one might have a JVM-based CL environment that is easy to install and could use Bespin [1] as a cloud-based development environment.

Developing with GWT is pretty damn sweet (especially, because they have finally figured out how to do layout properly [2]). But CL as a language is so much better suited than Java for the kind of service-oriented APIs that one implements with GWT. Thus, a combination of ABCL and Parenscript would be a perfect replacement for GWT.

[1] https://bespin.mozillalabs.com/
[2] http://2ality.blogspot.com/2010/02/next-generation-of-web-application-ui.html

On Feb 28, 2010, at 23:46 , Vladimir Sedach wrote:

> I think it's a good idea for a library. Maybe as an extensions to Red
> Daly's PSOS? In any case, that would be one more idea to steal from
> HOP (http://hop.inria.fr/), which I think was doing object sharing
> before, and in a better way, than GWT.
> 
> As far as freedom and democracy, if someone requests a feature and it
> seems like a good idea, I will implement it.

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