2022-03-27 12:16:29 Hey crc, sorry to bother you again, I think you may have missed my question the other day on #forth. Let me ask again

2022-03-27 12:25:00 Here, I compiled a little resume of my question to give the context: http://okturing.com/src/13356/body

2022-03-27 17:12:37 The biggest issues I see with REST api’s are TLS (I don’t have an implementation in for for this), and parsing the results.

2022-03-27 17:13:15 I’ve used the socket words to talk to HTTP servers, and have used curl in a pipe to talk to HTTPS servers

2022-03-27 17:14:34 I’ve explored using jq (https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) a little for extracting data from JSON results. (Also via a pipe)

2022-03-27 17:16:47 (At work we have a browser based application written mostly in retro, but this isn’t using a REST API; it generates static pages and the backend processes requests & form data)

2022-03-27 17:20:26 Okok, yeah for the TLS I am not too scared as on Plan 9 I can basically leverage the face that making an HTTPS request is as easy as opening a file descriptor and writing the query inside then reading the result in another file.

2022-03-27 17:21:57 Although I was actually more interested first in understanding a bit the "whys" behind retroforth and also how big of an effort would it be to port to another (somewhat non-posix, although there are some stuff that supposedly help with posix compatibility) system (Plan 9)?

2022-03-27 17:22:33 I read quite a bit the documentation available, also I should mention I loved your forth family tree

2022-03-27 17:23:44 I skimmed through the nga source, the Rx source in muri as well. I am trying to understand a bit how all the moving pieces fit together right now

2022-03-27 17:25:10 The thing I really like about retroforth is all the documentation and the literate programming that explains a bit how everything works. Although as I said, I feel I don't really get the "whys" yet

2022-03-27 17:53:17 As it is relatively late and work calls ealry tomorrow morning, I will disconnect, but I'll be back around tomorrow and will be happy to hear your thought if you would be so kind as to spare some time to write it down. On that note, good night!