The Power of the Paradigm
summary
Claims the next paradigm is asynchronous message passing and argues the actor model fits distributed systems better than RPC/HTTP, promises, generators or async/await. Describes a concrete project, the SAFE protocol: secure JSON over TCP, Node module, Curve521 keys as identities, AES‑256 and SHA3‑256, entropy harvesting from camera/mic, and a one‑round handshake that authenticates and establishes a session key. Gives a data point: JSON displaced XML in about five years. Presents code‑level preferences: higher‑order functions and composition over nested callbacks or syntactic sugar.
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chapters (28)
- 0:00Intro
- 5:34History
- 13:00Shooting the messenger
- 16:52Jason
- 18:50The Next Paradigm
- 24:49Generators
- 27:49Safe
- 28:42Safe Module
- 29:52Names
- 31:09Public Keys
- 31:27TCP
- 32:20Notation
- 33:00Safe Handshake
- 35:47Message ascend
- 36:44Secure systems
- 37:56Safe Project
- 38:19Port Safe to other platforms
- 39:04Safe Github
- 39:53Safe vs HTTPS
- 41:30New languages
- 43:03Bootstrapping
- 45:42JavaScript
- 49:12Functional Programming
- 51:17What about Jason
- 54:27What should we use
- 56:40Reactive programming
- 58:24Static typing
- 59:21Security
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