It's interesting how, in the world of web software and APIs, it's still quite difficult (and in some ways harder than with VBA/HyperCard/etc.) to compute over your own data. APIs make it possible to build *services* but missing the equivalent of hitting ~ to get a console.
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When working on Ent (essentially the in-memory GraphQL precursor) we actually spent some time working on REPL-specific APIs so you could do stuff like load an object from a copy-pasted url. Very simple to write. Very popular. Focusing on this use case is worth it.
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This sounds interesting, is there anywhere I can read more?
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