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I’ve been curious about it, but it’s difficult to wrap my mind around. I’ve read a lot of frank mcsherry’s blog posts, watched his videos, been through the book

I’ve been curious about it, but it’s difficult to wrap my mind around. I’ve read a lot of frank mcsherry’s blog posts, watched his videos, been through the book, and I guess it just hasn’t clicked for me! I also don’t have any use cases that make sense as a hobby project, and abstractly I know it could be useful at work but I can’t evangelize something I don’t really understand. Rust took me around three attempts to get into, and it took a motivated project to really seal the deal, but at some point I understood enough that it just became programming again. Haven’t reached that with differential dataflow yet, but I’ll keep trying.

namibj 6y ago
Hey, in case you're interested, we're a loose group working on DDlog [0] and DDflow to be able to use them for a JS/TS linter [1]. There are a couple fairly concrete and varyingly-isolated tasks on Timely [2], DDlog, as well as DDflow's dogs^3 [3](for the latter, boilerplate-encapsulating tooling with documentation for WCOJ [4]). Let me know if you'd like to talk. [0]: https://github.com/vmware/differential-datalog https://github.com/vmware/differential-datalog [1]: https://github.com/rslint/rslint https://github.com/rslint/rslint [2]: https://github.com/TimelyDataflow/timely-dataflow https://github.com/TimelyDataflow/timely-dataflow [3]: https://mtrlz.dev/api/rust/dogsdogsdogs/index.html_ https://mtrlz.dev/api/rust/dogsdogsdogs/index.html_ [4]: https://github.com/TimelyDataflow/differential-dataflow/tree/master/dogsdogsdogs#worst-case-optimal-joins https://github.com/TimelyDataflow/differential-dataflow/tree...