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"Data Driven UIs, Incrementally" by Yaron Minsky

Strange Loop Conference · talk · Watch on YouTube

Functional programmingSoftware architecture & designWeb development

What it is

Yaron Minsky of Jane Street shows how the OCaml Incremental library lets trading UIs express data transformations that are easy to read and efficient on streaming data. It includes a live table demo.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

  • 4 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “provides a better conceptual overview than the talk linked in the docs. Pretty interesting stuff.”

    Better conceptual overview of Incremental than the docs talk.

    nateabele, 2018-10 · Recommendation · in “Incremental – Library for incremental computations”

  2. “This talk has a pretty impressive live JS table demo!”

    Jane Street's Incremental library with a live JS table demo.

    chubot, 2018-12 · Recommendation · in “Adapton: Programming Language Abstractions for Incremental Computation”

  3. “Perhaps if you could review the above (if you have not done already), additional ideas/data points might help”

    Talk on incremental data-driven UIs with parallels to reactive UI theory.

    75dvtwin, 2019-11 · Recommendation · in “Towards a unified theory of reactive UI”

  4. “Any discussion about incremental UI should include Yaron Minsky's talk about Jane Street's OCaml framework, incr_dom from 2016”

    Yaron Minsky on Jane Street's incremental OCaml UI framework incr_dom.

    pgt, 2019-12 · Recommendation · in “Moxie: Incremental Declarative UI in Rust”

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Topics: ocaml, jane street, incremental, reactive ui, incr_dom

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