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Comment by marstall | Hacker News Reader

As a web developer with 25 years of experience and (I thought) up to the minute skills ... I have no idea what any of that means but it sounds cool and important and I want to try it.

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It allows you to define a GUI / DOM specification, with transparently embedded serverside commands that do things like "query the database for the list of users who meet criteria X." No annotation or other special action required.

The runtime figures out an efficient and reactive way of parceling out work to the server as needed, and refreshing it only when necessary.

Hats off to the lispers, they do some cool stuff. I think treating code as data they just have a different view of what computation means to the rest of us (or to me at least!)

You don’t have to know everything you see. If you find it interesting then cool but don’t feel compelled to learn every web thing, it’s a never ending rabbit hole.

More work and learning basically in "front end" land, before you can do anything practical -- as usual.

Because software engineers are known for being people who are averse to learning and trying new things out.

As opposed to actually spending their time building useful practical things?

Yes, that's why I manually input 1s and 0s - no time wasted on learning, only outputting practical things.

I hope you don't live every second of your life building useful practical things.

I do actually. What else are you supposed to do with your time? Life is short, best to use it.

I'd say commenting on Hackernews isn't building something, let alone something useful. So that's at least one thing you do that's not that.

Everyone needs a break from time to time. :P

I view it as an attempt to reduce the work required in "front end" land, making full stack development more feasible than it is today.

does nothing practical happen on the front end?

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