Building WebApps Like It's 1972 🧙♂️by Leandro Ostera
summary
Smalltalk and Erlang ideas map UI pieces to isolated actors that communicate by messages, with historical demos (Sketchpad 1963, the 1968 “mother of all demos”) showing live object editing and even two mice on one machine. The architecture emphasizes failure isolation, asynchronous messaging, parallelisable actors capable of millions of objects, and cites Erlang’s use in systems like WhatsApp. A Stage VM targeting WebAssembly aims to bring that model into browsers.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 2:43Sketch Pad
- 7:17Information Retrieval
- 12:54Actor Model
- 14:10Why Are We Risking So Much in the Action Model
- 14:38Synchronous Nature
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