Re: mirage + froc = self-scaling?

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Just to pick up on this point, the issue is that I think we don't really know 
if FRP can actually be used at scale.  Or at least, noone has tried yet in 
OCaml (some of the Javascript versions are reasonably well used for UI reactive 
programming).

So while I agree with the general need for tutorials, I'd probably focus on 
much safer ground such as Lwt/Async ahead of putting FRP on ocaml.org.  
However, a short tutorial on React and Lwt_react would certainly be nice to 
have, if only to understand how to build interesting data structures out of the 
primitives that are exposed.

-anil

On 10 Apr 2013, at 14:30, Ashish Agarwal <agarwal1975@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Slightly off-topic, but I'd like to encourage experts in topics like this to 
> contribute to ocaml.org. For example, in this case, it would be great to add 
> a page about FRP, where at the minimum the different FRP libraries are 
> listed. This isn't much work. Spending more time, it would be nice to have 
> tutorials for each of the libraries, a comparison between them, and maybe 
> references to the literature when appropriate. This takes more work but is 
> the kind of thing that can really help OCaml be more widely used. You can 
> always submit an issue with your text, and we'll figure out how to integrate 
> it to the right place.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Richard Mortier 
> <Richard.Mortier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On 10 Apr 2013, at 12:57, Mortier Richard wrote:
> 
> > so to summarise, React's benefits: are specified denotational semantics, 
> > and no global data structures; but React can only guarantee no memory leaks 
> > in environments that support weak references (which does not include JS 
> > until ECMAScript 6 is adopted).
> 
> sorry- i should, of course, have included far more complete and up-to-date 
> documentation as another benefit for React :)
> 
> --
> Cheers,
> 
> R.
> 
> 
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