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doug_durham ◴[] No.42173160[source]
With all due respect to the considerable thought and effort you put into this, the ergonomics of this approach are hideous. Why would I ever care about the styling elements when I'm just trying to do some exploratory data analysis. This is exactly why things like Jupyter notebooks excel. Regardless kudos to your curiosity and implementing alternate ideas.
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1. paddy_m ◴[] No.42173477[source]
From a brief look, I think he's trying to position it for "Exploratory DOM Analysis". The intro demo looks scheme/smalltalk like in that you are creating the structure and primitives as you go (as demonstrated by changing 'ivory' to 'red' and watching the syntax highlighting change in realtime).

I understand how we got here, but it's a shame that javascript frameworks and libraries aren't easier to just play with in the browser. It's just JS, you should be able to play with it quickly in a lightweight environment. This approach excels at that. This approach brings back the whimisical possibilities of HTML/JS. I'd love to see more stuff like that and less TS, rollup, webpack,...

edit:Actually after reading a bit, this is being proposed for data analysis. I think that's a poor fit for this approach