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Rasmus Schultz

Do you know about Opa?

opalang.org/

From 2011. 😄

This went way beyond just partial hydration - you basically just wrote programs, and the compiler would "slice" client/server concerns for you.

It was quite revolutionary at the time, I think - but for some reason was largely DOA with practically no one paying a lick of attention.

Years later there was Meteor, which has some of that, and suddenly everyone was like ooh yay isomorphic JavaScript wooh.

I think it was way ahead of it's time - and I actually loved the idea then.

In my opinion, these new tools don't go far enough. And I know that may seem like the opposite of what I was saying the other day, but the thing is, if there was a language that gave you all of this as part of the language, not just another framework with all the limitations of an existing language - I think that's cleaner and more interesting than mangling the semantics of an existing language to accomplish something that's not quite as good and will likely be superseded in another 6 months. 😄