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I only glanced at the article, but it also reminds me of Dataflow programming, incrementally updated materialized views, etc. (all the same concept at the end o

I only glanced at the article, but it also reminds me of Dataflow programming, incrementally updated materialized views, etc. (all the same concept at the end of the day, and yes, very similar to observables)

CyberDildonics 2y ago
It remind you of dataflow programming because it's literally the same thing.
- thechao 2y ago
  Specifically, the application of dataflow to GUIs, which was well-researched at Adobe by Sean Parent, Mat Marcus, et al in the early 2000s called the "Adam" and "Eve" languages. There's more work at TAMU & University of Turku (by Jaakko Jarvi) under the name "Espresso", or something like that. Basically, the "scopes" become constraints, and they use a hierarchical constraint solver to propagate state changes to the GUI elements, real-time, using a declarative dataflow programming model.
davexunit 2y ago
As Gerald Sussman says in "We really don't know how to compute!": > It's not dataflow! It's closely related, but it's not. https://youtu.be/HB5TrK7A4pI?t=2071 https://youtu.be/HB5TrK7A4pI?t=2071