"Data Driven UIs, Incrementally" by Yaron Minsky

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended in incremental computation and reactive UI threads as the best conceptual overview of Incremental and incr_dom.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Strange Loop Conference

Topic

incremental computation

Format

talk

Level

advanced

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2022

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From the original HN conversations

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• The author just gave a talk at Strange Loop [0] that provides a better conceptual overview than the talk linked in the docs. Pretty interesting stuff. [0] [VIDEO]

• From what I can tell, incremental computation is starting to be used in practice: Jane St has an OCaml library called Incremental: "Data Driven UIs, Incrementally" by Yaron Minsky at Strange Loop 2018: [VIDEO] This talk has a pretty impressive live JS table demo! It …

• Thank you for sharing the write up. I think the model you are describing, has parallels with Yaron Minksy's Data Driven UIs, incrementally [VIDEO] Perhaps if you could review the above (if you have not done already), additional ideas/data points might help with your formalization …