[erlang-questions] Two beautiful programs - or web programming made easy

[Florian Weimer]

* Joe Armstrong:

> How the heck can you easily send an an asynchronous message from a client to
> a server?
>
> HTTP get and post wait for a reply and thus are synchronous.
>
> By asynchronous I mean "fire and forget" like UDP.
>
> If it easy easy them I'd love to know how ..

XMLHttpRequest has an asynchronous option.

And you can get emulate a single full-duplex connection using two
half-duplex ones, so Websockets is just an optimization, and likely
not even a very much needed one.  The barrier right now seems to be
the BSD sockets API and kernel state management, and you still have
that with Websockets.