Malleable Systems: Software must be as easy to change as it is to use it

Re:Malleable Systems: Software must be as easy to change as ... by denster on Monday April 13, 2020 @05:29PM (#22860260)

Thank you! Genuinely warms my heart to hear it :)

We've been using our own "Visual SDK" to build large parts of MintData for the past few years.

It's 100% written in TypeScript/React, using decorators (cough: annotations!) and allows us to:

1) add new spreadsheet functions in TypeScript

2) wrap any React component

3) we get the auto-magic property panel UI "for free" & it instantly talks to/from the spreadsheet

For our cloud/backend imperative layer:

4) we use our own real-time stream processor (think: Apache Storm but minus the Clojure stacktraces)

5) the SDK lets us quickly write flow blocks in Java using annotations & connect to all sorts of enterprise-y systems (SQL/NoSQL stores, Queues, File Systems, etc)

@slifin -- in terms of engineers writing & selling those layers, we're open to it -- ping me if you have ideas & we can give you access to the docs & SDK.

[1] I'd put a link here, but the flamethrowers have come out on this thread :)

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Re:Malleable Systems: Software must be as easy to change as ... by chrisweekly on Monday April 13, 2020 @06:32PM (#22860920)

Looks pretty cool; IMHO it's a good idea. (I once participated as a consultant / dev on a project to convert a Byzantine set of Excel spreadsheets into a deployable application built on web technologies, and this might have been a saner approach.)

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Re:Malleable Systems: Software must be as easy to change as ... by denster on Monday April 13, 2020 @07:08PM (#22861178)

Thank you!

Before the others come with torches, I’ll point out we turned on public/free access recently, would be happy to hear your thoughts/feedback on the MintData approach.

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