alt Hacker NewsMan that seems like an awful lot of ceremony for a trivial web app. Surely the language known for macros and building your own DSLs has a more concise way to get a web app up and running?
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nomilk • today at 4:05 AM
This is a pretty great tutorial using common lisp libraries:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4PzSsOD-CQ
(also, the top comment is gold)
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anonzzzies • today at 4:20 AM
Is it? This translates fairly exactly to things like nodejs/express implementing the same thing?
Author here: You're right! I did that in the article. First I showed how to use the modern libraries, then wrote a quick custom library that compressed my original app in 29 LOC[0].
[0]: It came out shorter than the guestbook demo in Python-Flask.