Re:Bret Victor – Inventing on Principle (2012) [video]
by shalabhc on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @05:20PM
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Do you think it might be possible to integrate non-FRP style programs (basically stateful, imperative style) by running them in a VM which can isolate the effects and snapshot/restore the entire system state? In theory at least, it seems something like a web browser could rewind the state of a web app and replay with different input.
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Re:Bret Victor – Inventing on Principle (2012) [video]
by lomnakkus on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @05:31PM
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Snapshots/diffs are not enough to be able to "project into the future".
In the web browser this is mostly achievable if the whole app is programmed in a very strict React/Redux style where everything the React portion is handled through props. (Focus being an exception that seems just untamed, so far. I may very well have missed developments here.)
Re:Bret Victor – Inventing on Principle (2012) [video]
by beaconstudios on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @03:41AM
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I can confirm that dealing with focus in react hasn't really advanced. There's useful libraries for working around this like react-hotkeys but that's about it.