The Prolog Story (2010)
I’ve told this story in person dozens of times, it’s time to write it down and share it here. I’ve again experimentally recorded a video version (below), which you can view on a non-Flash device here .
Another retro post! It’s 2025, and I’m writing about generating HTML server-side for web apps. After vast experience building SPAs, leading teams to build SPAs, hiring people and training people to build SPAs… it’s clear that SPAs are great for SPA-shaped problems, but are inherently more complex, unnecessarily so…
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I’ve told this story in person dozens of times, it’s time to write it down and share it here. I’ve again experimentally recorded a video version (below), which you can view on a non-Flash device here .
At Strange Loop 2010 , I gave a 20 minute talk on Lua. The talk briefly covered six reasons ( why , not how) to choose Lua for embedded scripting. Lua is safe, fast, simple, easily learned, and more popular that you might expect.