The Power of the Paradigm
summary
Argues the next programming paradigm is asynchronous message passing not purity, and shows a concrete system that implements it: the SAFE protocol, a sessioned JSON+blob messaging layer with one–round-trip handshake, automatic retries and a best‑effort status send. Uses elliptic curve 521, AES‑256 and SHA3‑256 for identity and encryption, avoids DNS/cert/passwords, and ships a Node implementation today with ports to Java/iOS/Windows planned. Claims this replaces RPC/HTTP blocking patterns and enables capability‑style security and scalable distributed concurrency.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:43In science it often happens that scientists say You know that's a really good argument
- 3:41Change is sometimes painful
- 5:17Paradigms in Programming
- 11:54Paradigm Confusion
- 18:33Asynchronous Message Passing
- 21:09Clinging to the Old Paradigm
- 26:31Seif provides a module adding cryptographic services to NodeJS
- 29:15Seif Handshake
- 35:11The Seif Project
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