Simple cross-network scripting, revisited, this time for JavaScript
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- api
Research direction
Start by reading the linked 1998 article and the Drummer context in this issue; the proposal asks whether JavaScript syntax can express calls to functions on other machines. Done would require a concrete protocol and scope decision, but the issue does not identify files, tests, or an implementation entry point.
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Description
Back in 1998, we were getting ready to simplify scripting of apps that ran on other nodes on the net.
http://scripting.com/98/04/stories/simpleCrossNetworkScript.html
The idea was that you could call a function running on another machine using the same syntax that you use to call a function on the same machine. Something like this:
[serveraddress].addUser ("bullmancuso", "They pulled me back.");
And it would add a user named bullmancuso with the indicated slogan.
What's in "serveraddress" depends on the protocol you're using to communcate with the server.
This is just syntax. You could just as easily used this syntax to make XML-RPC or REST calls.
Should we do something like this for Drummer? The question is how easy would it be to arrange this in JavaScript? Would it require a pre-processor?
- Dominant language
- HTML
- Stars
- 134
- Forks
- 10
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
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