RSC for Lisp Developers
a year ago
- #JavaScript
- #React Server Components
- #LISP
- LISP emphasizes that code is data and data is code, with features like quoting to treat code as data.
- Quoting in LISP allows code to be treated as data without immediate evaluation, enabling later execution.
- Web apps generate client-side code (HTML/JS) on the server, similar to quoting in LISP.
- JavaScript lacks native quoting, making it hard to treat code as data without losing syntax benefits.
- React Server Components (RSC) allow 'quoting' entire modules, enabling code-as-data for client-server composition.
- RSC enables modular composition of server and client behaviors, ensuring server-side execution within a single roundtrip.
- Unlike LISP, RSC lacks metaprogramming capabilities and code transformation features.
- LISP has solutions for multi-environment code composition (e.g., Electric), which could inspire JavaScript developers.