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peatmoss·

I love it! Now, if it can render content where:

- HTML is replaced with S-Exprs

- CSS is replaced with lisp

- javascript is replaced with lisp

Then I think I'll be ready to join whatever cult you ever feel like starting :-)

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HTML: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup

CSS: https://github.com/noprompt/garden

Javascript: https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript

seriously, Clojure is the utopia.

Good point—I was mostly wanting to replace the need for HTML, CSS, and Javascript as compile targets. And Clojure is indeed a joy.

ah, right, i don't aim that high :)

No reason this couldn't accept a content type of application/htsl (for hypertext S-expression language, of course). I proposed something like this in a comment of mine a couple of months back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14931277

That's no cult, that's a Utopia!

I wouldn't like to see CSS replaced with lisp. CSS is declarative, lisp is imperative/functional.

Lisp can be very much declarative. It can be literally any paradigm by virtue of being a direct representation of it's AST while all other languages have to be parsed into AST.

CSS's cascading rules can be diagrammed as a tree, so can be shown as s-exprs.

I can clearly imagine how s-exprs can replace html, but I don't understand how s-exprs would replace css. Would you show a toy example?

Here's a working example: https://github.com/noprompt/garden

Wouldn't that be "reinventing the flat tire"? The Web needs far more serious redesign than just replacing the syntaxes.

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