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Nick Arner
05/31/2022, 4:07 PMAnother 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/
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Srini K
05/31/2022, 5:17 PMhey FYI link to ârewilding the webâ seems to 404. Not sure where issue lies but just thought Iâd point it out
and also the link to http://worrydream.com/refs/Kay also doesnât work â should instead link to: http://worrydream.com/refs/Kay%20-%20User%20Interface,%20a%20Personal%20View.pdf
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Nick Arner
05/31/2022, 6:13 PMAwesome - thanks for the heads up!
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Alex Cruise
06/01/2022, 4:27 PMoh 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
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It probably didnât help that UI frameworks are where componentware really started making claims, and it turns out those are the hairiest hairballs ever haired
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