[Pmop]

Kind off-topic but related: sometimes I wonder how web development would be if Lisp had somehow won as standard, since we can use to do everything the stack HTML+CSS+JS+Backend-language does, in addition to standardized syntax and standard everything.

Oh, standards. Standards.

[TeMPOraL]

We were so close. Twice, JavaScript had a chance to be Scheme; both times marketing reasons prevailed (first, to capitalize on the marketing spending of Java; later, to compete against Microsoft's JScript).

If Scheme was the language of the web, then HTML and CSS being represented as s-expressions would be the most obvious next steps, and we'd be like 15 years ahead in terms of progress.

[seanmcdirmid]

Marketing and popularity aren’t unrelated.

[Razengan]

Popularity can be faked through marketing.

[TeMPOraL]

Popularity is created through marketing.

[seanmcdirmid]

Popularity can only be faked via shills and poll rigging. Perhaps you mean something else?

[buckminster]

You say that like marketing and shilling are two wholly distinct activities. Have you heard of Instagram?

[seanmcdirmid]

One is people pretending to like something or wrongly saying people like something. The other is people liking something for the wrong reasons. These are completely two different concepts.

[kitd]

From Racket [1]:

    #lang web-server/insta
    (define (start request)
      (response/xexpr
       '(html
         (head (title "My Blog"))
         (body (h1 "Under construction")))))

[1] - https://docs.racket-lang.org/continue/index.html

[e12e]

And given this site, I suppose a link to arc/anarki is relevant too:

https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/blob/master/apps/news/...

[schpaencoder]

We would probably just treat the html as data, that is normal lisp. So no syntax changes. Same for css I guess. Maybe in twenty years.

[sooheon]

Next best thing today: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup#syntax, https://github.com/noprompt/garden#syntax

[mhd]

Or PostScript.