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Another guest post on the blog from my friend Anton Troynikov; this time on Remixable Software:
<https://nickarner.com/notes/remixable-software-guest-post-may-31-2022/>

hey FYI link to “rewilding the web” seems to 404. Not sure where issue lies but just thought I’d point it out

and also the link to <http://worrydream.com/refs/Kay> also doesn’t work — should instead link to: <http://worrydream.com/refs/Kay%20-%20User%20Interface,%20a%20Personal%20View.pdf>

oh boy, I could talk for hours about this topic, being old and all

Declarative in the large: abject failure so far

Declarative in the small: exists but only in very small, very weird pockets (pure FP, datalog/prolog)

Why no componentware? Because all nontrivial apps need leaky abstractions, because the actual requirements of the app are never a clean subset of the features of the component

It probably didn’t help that UI frameworks are where componentware really started making claims, and it turns out those are the hairiest hairballs ever haired