Abstract
Modern Web application developers are torn between the goals of simple, modular direct-style code and the scalability available through the unexpressive and unmodular RESTful Web style. In the PLT Scheme programming system, we have push the state of the art of both of these programming styles. In this talk, we will discuss how we resolve the conflict between these two goals and provide support for simple, modular, expressive and scalable direct-style Web applications. Web applications written using our framework can automatically offload all state to clients the gold standard of scalability or, if necessary, keep state on the server and use ten times less memory than previous direct-style approaches.