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The two part technical overview was a fantastic writeup and illustration! I didn't understand why you were using that JSON structure to illustrate everything un

• jsunderland323 3y ago
  Thank you so much! I put so much effort into that and you are probably the only person on earth who has actually read that thing in its entirety (aside from my poor, ex-midwife, mother who has no idea what I'm talking about). > but am wondering if you're planning to apply the same techniques to traditional designer working files. I would love to. When I discovered the JSON trick I felt really confident that this was the inevitable direction of the project but after writing a few plugins I'm not exactly sure how practical I really think that is now. It's great for primitives but I'm apprehensive about anything that starts to get into the no-code territory. I think it's possible but there's some mathematical and UI challenges I've got to overcome. To make something more complex than a TMS system I really need to make the schema language a bit more robust in a way that is probably beyond my engineering skills. I need to find someone who actually knows how to write compilers and understands category theory (not me haha). I think this could be applied to something more general like figma/sketch though and I hope it's a first step for someone smarter than me to fill that gap.