[Ur] Very interesting, but mind-exploding

[Adam Chlipala]

On 11/21/2013 11:50 AM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote:
> The problem comes when trying to map previous problem-solving 
> paradigms to ur/web. I come from a Ruby/Rails background mostly, and 
> right now the Ruby community is quite spoiled, spoiled to the point 
> you can basically get an application up and running by gluing gems 
> together, in most cases. It's fast, and it's hard to get blocked, so 
> it's good for business (specially startups).
>
> Perhaps a cookbook booklet with more real world "recipes" would be 
> helpful, or, after as I understand more how ur and web work, a 
> Ruby/Rails comparison would be useful.

I like to think that Ur/Web allows mapping informal web concepts into 
language or library constructs one-to-one, so that there's no need for 
the sort of "programming by web search and copy-paste" that I see 
associated with mainstream frameworks; but perhaps it would be valuable 
to build a cookbook (probably started by someone else, so that I can get 
a sense for what kind of information belongs in it).

It's easier for me to see the value of alternative presentations of the 
language and standard library, since I've tried to design them to 
provide exactly the pieces programmers will look for to assemble their 
applications.