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dragonwriter on April 22, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Existential crisis at Railsconf

Sure, you can do that; but the problem is that you then have to worry about type system mismatches between the interface definition language, and the back- and front-end application languages.

There have been lots of things that do something like this: SOAP and the associated WS-* standards are probably the best known.

dllthomas on April 23, 2015 [–]

Very true, and certainly still a big undertaking, depending a little on how well the type systems at either end line up.

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