Flapjax, a Reactive Programming Language for the Web, to Be Unveiled on the 11th at Geek Dinner

The next Providence Geeks Dinner on Wednesday, October 11th at Brown’s CIT will feature the first public demonstration of Flapjax, a new programming language for building contemporary Web applications developed by a team Brown CS researchers.

The presentation will be by the core Flapjax team: Leo Meyerovich, Michael Greenberg, Gregory Cooper, Aleks Bromfield, and Professor Shriram Krishnamurthi.

Flapjax has five essential features:

1. It is an event-driven, reactive language, ideal for writing browser-based client applications.


2. It provides a reactive, persistent store that automatically updates on all clients sharing the same data.


3. It enables convenient sharing of data with other users.


4. It implements access-control to channel this sharing.


5. It provides libraries to connect to external Web services (thereby enabling client-side mash-ups).

Flapjax is built entirely atop (and is syntactically identical to) JavaScript, and can thus run on traditional Web browsers without the the need for plug-ins or other downloads.

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