[Existenceblinks]

Some sort of open AST. Honestly "HTML" is pretty close except string typed attribute. `data-`|dataset is also pretty close.

> Some sort of open AST

well React is kind of that but it's not serializable. The "React Server Components" is trying.

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We just need HTML but in form of AST so that it is serializable and programmable.

[yaaang]

I don't follow how HTML comes anything close to expressing dynamism, composition, state, Turing completeness, etc.

Sure, you can encode whatever you want inside of data attributes, but that's just ignoring the problem. You still have to decide on a language to express all that within your data attributes.

React server components also does not is not trying to serialize this. Quite the opposite. We have an in-depth write up here: https://www.plasmic.app/blog/how-react-server-components-wor...

(Sise note: Plasmic's AST is in the open and has an API.)

[Existenceblinks]

I did a quick dig on Plasmic's AST and not found its spec. Is there a repo for its specification?

[Existenceblinks]

> 2. Server serializes root component element to JSON

That's what I'm talking about.