Hyperfiddle: Compiler Managed Network Connections (S03 E06)

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Hyperfiddle is an app builder in Clojure/Clojurescript that uses a compiler to manage the network connections in the app for you. We discuss what makes code easy vs simple, arches for software, home-cooked apps, and the implications of a compiler for everything.

Links/Resources:
- [https://www.hyperfiddle.net/](https://www.hyperfiddle.net/)
- [https://hyperfiddle.notion.site/Reactive-Clojure-You-don-t-need-a-web-framework-you-need-a-web-language-44b5bfa526be4af282863f34fa1cfffc](https://www.notion.so/Reactive-Clojure-You-don-t-need-a-web-framework-you-need-a-web-language-44b5bfa526be4af282863f34fa1cfffc)
- [https://www.hytradboi.com/2022/uis-are-streaming-dags](https://www.hytradboi.com/2022/uis-are-streaming-dags)
- [https://hyperfiddle.notion.site/UIs-are-streaming-DAGs-e181461681a8452bb9c7a9f10f507991](https://www.notion.so/UIs-are-streaming-DAGs-e181461681a8452bb9c7a9f10f507991)
- How hyperfiddle changed over time
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20180217034740/http://www.hyperfiddle.net/](https://web.archive.org/web/20180217034740/http://www.hyperfiddle.net/)
- First video proof of Hyperfiddle's "distributed dataflow" architecture for server-streamed UI. "UI as an Expression” [https://twitter.com/dustingetz/status/1474050461745528839](https://twitter.com/dustingetz/status/1474050461745528839)
- [https://github.com/hyperfiddle/hyperfiddle-2020](https://github.com/hyperfiddle/hyperfiddle-2020)
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6888V9YsObM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6888V9YsObM)

Show Notes:
- Have you tried rubbing a database on it? https://www.hytradboi.com/
- Self-adjusting Computations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6a5G5i4gQU
- Sloth ecosystems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU9Tn_Qkjb8
- Simple Made Easy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4
- Apps can be home-cooked meals https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/
- Bundling and Unbundling https://reallifemag.com/bundling-and-unbundling/
- Alan Kays: STEPS http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2012001_steps.pdf and the Niles Compiler https://github.com/damelang/nile https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiki/damelang/nile/socal.pdf

Chapters:

0:00 Intros
[00:02:05] What is Hyperfiddle?
[00:08:53] Managed Network through a Compiler
[00:15:49] Arches for Software
[00:19:21] Beyond Low Code
[00:26:39] Abstractions: Simple vs Easy
[00:29:14] Core of what's hard about apps
[00:33:16] The Eight Fallacies
[00:34:54] Home-cooked apps
[00:40:28] The Piped Piper Dream
[00:45:57] Reports for everyone!
[00:51:35] A compiler to help manage state?
[00:55:12] A Compiler for the Metaverse
[01:01:44] Making Integration Smoother
[01:04:38] OG "bare metal"
[01:12:01] Hypertext as Application State
[01:20:03] Compilers do hard things all the time

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