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I mean, the fact that Bret Victor has himself been working on the problem for ten years (without popular success, yet) should count as an attempt at reifying hi

I mean, the fact that Bret Victor has himself been working on the problem for ten years (without popular success, yet) should count as an attempt at reifying his vision. I would guess that lack of attempts isn't the problem. Reactivity has certainly become more popular, and is a standard part of web development now. And ipywidgets are an example of creating manipulatable abstractions in data science.

cmontella 4y ago
> Bret Victor has himself been working on the problem for ten years tbf, he measures the timescale of the Dynamicland project in decades, and marks 2022 as the first time "Dynamicland meets the world" [1]. Seems like he's matching the pace he set for himself, so you really can't say he hasn't had popular success if he hasn't even tried to popularize it yet. Also tbf, any concept involving "a place where a bunch of people congregate and touch things" has suffered since the pandemic, so I think we can still maintain a "wait-and-see" stance instead of declaring the ideas dead. [1] https://dynamicland.org https://dynamicland.org