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Watching some of the vids coming out of this year's Perl and Raku Conference. Ingy döt؜؜ Net­'s talk on his work on Lingy and YAMLScript was pretty amazing.

Lingy is a hosted on - Perl code can call Lingy code can call Perl code. The idea of having a Lingy VM with JIT is very appealing.

YAMLScript is a YAML-style dialect of Lingy (or any Clojure implementation), for those who don't like LISP style.

Check the talk out here: youtu.be/9OcFh-HaCyI

@fuzzix I always like to note that #YAML was designed by #Perl and #XML hackers in the middle of the dot-com crash of the early 2000s. People either think that explains much or look at me funny for bringing up such “ancient” history

fuzzix

@mjgardner I like the image you evoke of the entire online and software economy physically collapsing, a small but determined team taking shelter within, planting a seed for the future so that we do not repeat the mistakes of the past (Looking at you, SOAP!)

@fuzzix I have bad news for you: #SOAP came out of that same era. It was an over-engineered adaptation by #Microsoft and @w3c of @davew’s #XMLRPC

Mind you, the entire #XML-based #WebServices stack of standards is being re-accreted on top of #JSON with efforts like #OpenAPI and JSON Schema. The final and once-again neglected piece is automated service discovery à la #UDDI