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This is a good article, but I've noticed that the adjective "modern" is used disproportionately more in the world of JavaScript, compared to other tech stacks. Is it more performant, more maintainable, faster to develop, compatible with more devices/platforms? If not, what is the advantage of being modern? That said, I'm a fan of JavaScript and have been writing it since 2001, and many of the backends I write are Nod…
- Incremental computing - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_computing
- Self-Adjusting Computation (Umut A. Acar) - https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/students/acar.pdf
- Introducing incremental (JaneStreet) - https://blog.janestreet.com/introducing-incremental/
- Incremental computation and the web (JaneStreet) - https://blog.janestreet.com/incrementality-and-the-web/
- Self Adjusting DOM (JaneStreet) - https://blog.janestreet.com/self-adjusting-dom/
- Self Adjusting DOM and Diffable Data (JaneStreet) - https://blog.janestreet.com/self-adjusting-dom-and-diffable-...
- Incremental Computation (Draft of part 1) (Rado Kirov) - https://rkirov.github.io/posts/incremental_computation/
- Incremental Computation (Draft of part 2) (Rado Kirov) - https://rkirov.github.io/posts/incremental_computation_2/
- Incremental Computation (Draft of part 3) (Rado Kirov) - https://rkirov.github.io/posts/incremental_computation_3/
- Towards a unified theory of reactive UI (Raph Levien) - https://raphlinus.github.io/ui/druid/2019/11/22/reactive-ui....
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I also like svelte but as a compiler-y person who happens to be doing some JS I can't work out why I'm annotating so much stuff by hand (even with svelte 5). I can get why you might want this for react, but isn't svelte a compiler? Can't we do dataflow analysis? I'm 50% convinced there's a Chesterton's fence I'm mising but where?
Kind of an aside, but I can’t stand how in Svelte the statement “foo = foo” is semantically meaningful.
The one I made is https://mutraction.dev/ The name is a portmanteau of mutation tracking.
If anyone is interested in this topic, I would recommend to start from fundamentals, so it would provide some answers on why some "not so modern" frameworks aren't jumping on a "signals" hype-train. - Incremental computing - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_computing - Self-Adjusting Computation (Umut A. Acar) - https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/students/acar.pdf - Introducing incremental (JaneStreet) - https://bl…
This is a good article, but I've noticed that the adjective "modern" is used disproportionately more in the world of JavaScript, compared to other tech stacks. Is it more performant, more maintainable, faster to develop, compatible with more devices/platforms? If not, what is the advantage of being modern? That said, I'm a fan of JavaScript and have been writing it since 2001, and many of the backends I write are Nod…
(I mainly work on native desktop apps, but can use JS if needed.)
Wow, what a site, I love that feel of blogs
If anyone is interested in this topic, I would recommend to start from fundamentals, so it would provide some answers on why some "not so modern" frameworks aren't jumping on a "signals" hype-train. - Incremental computing - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_computing - Self-Adjusting Computation (Umut A. Acar) - https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/students/acar.pdf - Introducing incremental (JaneStreet) - https://bl…
Besides React, are any of the popular frameworks not on the signals type-train?
In my opinion, one of the most interesting ideas to explore in this problem space is a hybrid solution: differential dataflow[1][2](model) + self-adjusting computations(view-model + view).
This is a good article, but I've noticed that the adjective "modern" is used disproportionately more in the world of JavaScript, compared to other tech stacks. Is it more performant, more maintainable, faster to develop, compatible with more devices/platforms? If not, what is the advantage of being modern? That said, I'm a fan of JavaScript and have been writing it since 2001, and many of the backends I write are Nod…
Obviously a lot of these techniques are pretty novel, and maybe they won't stand the test of time. Or maybe a new browser standard will make them obsolete eventually. But for now these seem to be the current wave anyway.