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<kestrelwx>dthompson: Hi! Are you working on a FRP library on top of Goblins?

<kestrelwx>Hello, everyone.

<dthompson>kestrelwx: not currently, no

<dthompson>propagators are a good fit on top of the actor model, though, for networked things

<dthompson>all my FRP explorations so far have been for UI so no goblins

<dthompson>cwebber has done some exploration with propagators + goblins, though https://codeberg.org/spritely/brainy

<dthompson>not frp specifically

<kestrelwx>Does it make sense to write an UI using Goblins? You'd need some object system, right?

<identity>well, what is the difference between actors and objects?

<dthompson>consider the DOM on the web. that is an existing UI system. a goblins program that runs on the web will need to tie into this somehow, but I don't think the way to do this is by having a 1:1 mapping between UI element and actor, for example.

<kestrelwx>So you would have an UI element as a record?

<dthompson>well I just use the DOM directly

<dthompson>I keep the application state layer (actors) separate from the UI layer

<dthompson>the abstraction barrier is crossed when the user interacts with the UI or the application state changes in a way that needs to be reflected in the UI

<dthompson>they're basically two separate event loops that need to be bridged sometimes

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