[raydiatian]

> “Application as a Function”

Forgive me if I’m oversimplifying, but isn’t this just “stateless servers” and “router-service separation” at its core? Maybe this isn’t targeted for the API crowd, but anybody who has spent even a few months learning modern client-server programming understands this, and web dev is pretty common these days…

[arvonle]

Or the Unix vision of composable programs that do one thing and do it well. History repeats itself.

[Smaug123]

I think that's orthogonal. One can compose a mutable ball of mud out of a collection of components that individually do one thing well. A more apt analogy, though rather unbelievable (demonstrating how orthogonal the concepts are!), might be a Unix-style system where the entire environment were specified as inputs to every shell command. Nix takes steps towards this, but it's very different in style.

[kodroid]

Hey,

Not targeted at the API crowd really no, more client side applications, but it seems similar principles have been applied in various places / frameworks as spoken about in other comments here.

> Maybe this isn’t targeted for the API crowd, but anybody who has spent even a few months learning modern client-server programming understands this, and web dev is pretty common these days

Yes, I'm sure your right, but there are a huge number of people who are not web devs who have not been exposed to these fundamental principles and how they may apply in other operating environments :)