Taking the grunt work out of web development
Tuesday, December 23, 2014 - 18:00
in Mathematics & Economics
A new programming language automatically coordinates interactions between Web page components. The language is called Ur/Web, and it lets developers write Web applications as self-contained programs. The language's compiler -- the program that turns high-level instructions into machine-executable code -- then automatically generates the corresponding XML code and style-sheet specifications and embeds the JavaScript and database code in the right places.