strictly

About

strictly is a declarative programming language for interactive web-uis.

Goals

• Correctness
  • through type typesafety and immutability
  • through the declarative paradigm
• Safety
  • the compiler will protect you from xss
• Performance
  • no shadow dom diffing, all change paths are optimized at compile time
  • small memory footprint, therefore less garbage-collection freezes
• Size
  • there is no framework or runtime involved, everything is encapsulated inside the web component
• small scope
  • no feature-creep
  • this language is aimed to solve dom interactions and state handling, not more not less

Tradeoffs

• limited browser support
  • strictly is based on webcomponents
  • no walkarounds for outdated browser bugs
• no JS interop
  • there is no plan to make Javascript interoparability possible
  • the only interaction is through the webcomponent-api

• no ecosystem
  • no integration to js libraries
  • no integration to css libraries
• no feature richness
  • the scope of this language is very small and aims to solve only a limited scope

State

This project is currently in its very early stages, the featureset and the apis will change.