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<glenneth>Good morning o/

<dthompson>hey glenneth

<glenneth>Hey dthompson o/ How are you doing?

<dthompson>doing pretty well! just getting back to work after a quick trip to toronto over the weekend

<glenneth>Nice. Vacation?

<dthompson>nope, we were speaking at a toronto games week event on saturday

<glenneth>Ahh. Even better. I hope it went well

<dthompson>it did!

<dthompson>smallish event but it was good

<glenneth>excellent.

<glenneth>Glad you're here actually dthompson. I was inspired to investigate FRP. I'm working on a web framework. Your talk at FOSSDEM gave me the nudge I needed

<dthompson>oh cool! glad it was helpful

<dthompson>still a lot of problems to figure out. maybe you can solve some of them :)

<glenneth>very much so.

<glenneth>I think I've got the diamond problem solved, still more work to do though

<dthompson>one thing I've been kind of hung up on is propagation of timestamps vs. the actual values.

<glenneth>I implemented a height-based topological scheduling. Every cell tracks its height in the dependency graph. Base cells are 0, computed cells are max(dependency heights) + 1

<dthompson>okay so you are limiting yourself to DAGs?

<glenneth>For now yeah. Kind of :) I'd be grateful if you have the time to take a look https://github.com/parenworks/Fluxion It is common lisp

<dthompson>in alexey radul's thesis, he mentions that topological sort is how most FRP libraries work but it's rather complicated and restricts graphs to DAGs

<glenneth>From what I have so far I do have basically glitch free propogation. I even wrote an example app using the framework, it's not being pushed hard but it works

<dthompson>I'm guessing this is most/all of it? https://github.com/parenworks/Fluxion/blob/main/src/cells.lisp

<glenneth>Really, I just wanted to say thank you. Inspirational talk you gave

<dthompson>topological sort does get you glitch-free propagation

<dthompson>thanks :)

<glenneth>wip, obviously lol. But I think it has legs

<dthompson>if you have any breakthroughs let me know :)

<glenneth>definitely.

<glenneth>I called out your talk in a blog post for it :) Credit where it's due

<dthompson>aww thanks :)

<glenneth>niche subject but incredibly interesting

<dthompson>endlessly fascinating topic

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