can we have our "app db" cake & eat it too?

[Raoul Duke]

   https://dev.to/davidkpiano/redux-is-half-of-a-pattern-2-2-4jo3

[David Barbour]

That article is arguably about fighting Javascript for performance of a global store.

If a language is designed to favor a global store for app state, it is feasible to compute paths at compile-time, and even link paths to the final layout of state.

It would be useful to model state as a set of second-class implicit parameters, subject to structured translations for hierarchical components, instead of first-class values.

We might express fine-grained state notifications in terms of coroutines that yield via 'await Condition', or alternatively via incremental computation of repetitive transactions. In any case, a compiler could play a role here, too.

Anyhow, performance problems cannot be blamed solely on a software architecture, especially not when implementation involves working around the language instead of with it.

On Sat, Aug 9, 2025, 2:12 AM Raoul Duke <rao...@gmail.com> wrote:

   https://dev.to/davidkpiano/redux-is-half-of-a-pattern-2-2-4jo3

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[Raoul Duke]

Thank you for the thoughts. Even though the JS ecosystem apparently supports lots (too much, probably) advanced experimentation and has produced neat ideas & implementations, I do wonder how much of programming history has been deoptimized just because we are saddled with the mainstream language(s) of the time.