throwawaytire

The title of this article sounds like a password [1].

Whenever one of these articles comes out I like to think of this fun paper: [2] Are Black Hole Starships Possible?", http://arxiv.org/pdf/0908.1803

[1] https://xkcd.com/936/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_starship

It's nice to see an abstraction over Javascript and ajax. I'm working on an asp.net MVC site at the moment and can't stand the untidyness of dealing with the jumping between abstractions all the time.

As an aside, Elm looks a nice way to write web client code. I hope Elm will one day compile to a fast language for the server (e.g. C, OCaml or WebAssembly). There's no reason Elm shouldn't be as fast as OCaml and I think for server-based work it should be within 2x C speed.