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What is the inspiration for this? Alan Kay has often talked about everything-is-a-computer (i.e. individual objects are fully-functioning computers), which was
by gavinpc 9y ago
What is the inspiration for this? Alan Kay has often talked about everything-is-a-computer (i.e. individual objects are fully-functioning computers), which was an idea he took from his background in microbiology.
Thanks for making this, I'm interested to check it out.
- shanev 9y agoI love technology that mimmicks nature. Never thought I'd see it in a web non-framework. Cells in this are analogous to biological cells which contain DNA that knows how to build other cells.
- gliechtenstein 9y agoThank you. i built it because I believed things can be much simpler. The inspiration was from real life cells. It's amazing how small autonomous cells bind and interact with one another to form a complex organism. Cells have genotypes which manifest themselves into phenotypes. And a nucleus that self-controls the cell cycle. I thought by creating a completely autonomous structure that mimics how cells work it will be possible to create complexity from simplicity. i hear a lot of people saying this will never scale because it doesn't look like react or angular, but I think the point is not about what's missing, but what you can do with these by combining these self aware elements. I believe this approach is much more scalable because it builds on top of simplicity. Again, thanks for the comment!