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It's a hard problem: the very qualities which let QC and Form give good feedback make them heavier in composition. Keep it up, tool authors!

8:28 PM · Jan 19, 2015Twitter for iPhone

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@andy_matuschak

will do. Lots to be invented.

Great! I do worry that Framer's programming model—stateful JS—fundamentally forbids realtime feedback, but maybe you can get close?

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"pretend all your code is executed every frame, but it's not, really"

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the "carefully memoizing" part probably isn't coming for a while, but that's basically right

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difficult to describe in tweets, but the idea is a language kind of like processing (immediate mode drawing)

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but with a structured way to maintain identity across frames for persistent local state and animation.

Like "Immediate Mode GUI"?

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I live in the south bay… definitely be down to chat sometime, I'm around pretty much every afternoon/evening

argh, don't make me miss California!