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There is already a project named Solid led by Tim Berners-Lee: https://solid.mit.edu



Note that that website is no longer the project home - it has spun off from MIT: https://solidproject.org/

(Disclosure: I work at Inrupt, the company started by Tim Berners-Lee to support the project's adoption.)


SOLID was a set of principles for OO design introduced in 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOLID

In 1983, a database was named SolidDB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SolidDB

etc. etc.


That is an interesting project. And looks like they beat me to Solid name by a few years. I usually refer to my project as SolidJS. But thanks for bringing this to my attention.


This SolidJS project already has more legs/traction than that's ever going to have.


This is interesting (I’m doing something similar in a specific domain) but there is a bunch of issues: very scarce documentation, funded by Quatari money, and more importantly built on bloated, low adoption set of Semantic Web specs. Heck, the tutorial even acknowledges[1] "If all the above looks terribly complicated: that’s because it is."

[1] https://solidproject.org/for-developers/apps/first-app/4-dat...


Agree with the point about SemWeb. AFAIK, RDF/OWL/SPARQL is kindof a long-term pet project of TBL's, and now with SOLID IMHO he's kindof reusing parts of it as a 2nd chance to finally become mainstream (with weaving and creatively interpreting specs as is typical of SemWeb). What SOLID wants to achieve, though (a federated, less centralized web) is too important an initiative to let it become a case of puzzling out an utopian stack based on tech that has failed mainstream adoption, so unfortunately can't be taken seriously, and seems more like a project for fundraising TBL's pet project. Saying this as someone who has just recently worked with SPARQL and graph DBs in bioinformatics which is one of the domains where it actually has gained traction.




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