An alternative solution to that of fibers to concurrency's simplicity vs. performance issue is known as async/await, and has been adopted by C# and Node.js, and will likely be adopted by standard JavaScript. Continuations and fibers dominate async/await in the sense that async/await is easily implemented with continuations (in fact, it can be implemented with a weak form of delimited continuations known as stackless continuations, that don't capture an entire call-stack but only the local context of a single subroutine), but not vice-versa.

  While implementing async/await is easier than full-blown continuations and fibers, that solution falls far too short of addressing the problem. While async/await makes code simpler and gives it the appearance of normal, sequential code, like asynchronous code it still requires significant changes to existing code, explicit support in libraries, and does not interoperate well with synchronous code. In other words, it does not solve what's known as the "colored function" problem.

https://lokalized.com

Check it out here: https://www.soklet.com

I was looking for something that captured the spirit of projects like Express (Node), Flask (Python), and Sinatra (Ruby) but had the power of a "real" framework and nothing else quite fit: Spark/Javalin are too bare-bones, Quarkus/Micronaut/Helidon/Spring Boot/etc. have lots of dependencies, moving parts, and/or programming styles I don't particularly like (e.g. reactive).

What I wanted to do was make building a web system almost as easy as a "hello world" app without compromising functionality and I feel I have accomplished this goal.

Other goals - support for Server-Sent Events, which are table-stakes now in 2026 and "native" integration testing (just run instances of your app in a Simulator) are best-in-class in my opinion. Servlet integration is also available if you can't yet fully disentangle yourself from that world.

If you're interested in Soklet, you might like some of its zero-dependency sister projects:

Pyranid, a modern JDBC interface that embraces SQL: https://www.pyranid.com Lokalized, which enables natural-sounding translations (i18n) via an expression language: https://www.lokalized.com

I think Java is going to become a bigger player in the LLM space (virtual threads now, forthcoming Vector API/Project Panama/etc.) If you're building agentic systems (or just need a simple REST API), Soklet may be a good fit for you.

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https://lokalized.com

What is your definition of _conscious reasoning and understanding_?

Pyranid - https://www.pyranid.com

I prefer SQL to ORMs and I don't like libraries with dependencies. Really simple mapping of resultsets to Java objects. Plays nicely with DI (I like Guice a lot).

Lokalized - https://www.lokalized.com

Another no-dependencies lib. I don't think any other platform handles translations in a powerful enough way. The magic is a simple expression language that lets the translator specify rules (e.g special cases for certain languages to be more "natural sounding") instead of embedding all that logic in code.

The magic is a tiny expression language which understands plural cardinalities, ordinals, etc. so a translator can encode all required logic in a JSON file - the application code can be "dumb".

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I am attempting to solve this with a small library that offers full CLDR coverage and a special expression language.

See https://www.lokalized.com

Currently for Java 8 but am porting to JS and Python (probably Swift after those)

It is often a positive signal that a candidate has worked on software large enough to be used internationally or is thorough enough to worry about it. For most of us, day-to-day software work is about being thorough and careful with design and implementation, not heavy algorithmic lifting

Really?

2. "replace(/[^a-z0–9]/ig, '');"

If I were interviewing and a candidate did this I would ask if he/she knows what i18n is