this makes me feel a bit silly because i was asked recently why i think XHP hadn't caught on in the open source, and i really was not sure — i guess people were swung too far to the MVC side — but in a way it did catch on? just 10 years after than this approach become popular inside FB
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if you liked my old "React as a UI Runtime" post, i think this one represents something similar for RSC. it’s like “the shortest path to get to the same endpoint”
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i'm kind of late to this realization but Astro is very similar to XHP. i think XHP was kind of collectively ignored (partially due to sparse documentation and partially due to unpopularity of Hack). but Astro's model feels very similar (maybe more powerful?)
oh man. i should totally integrate bluesky threads into my blog. that shouldn’t be difficult to pull from the api. i can kind of just present them as alternative “posts”. and fetch designated ones during the build. hmm
