We've using iframe to extend legacy apps for at least 10 years. And I don't think this approach that needs rewrite the of the base router really brings a benefit. Very often is really problematic to change the base router.

Noob question: There's a way to write a OpenGL drive that uses Metal underneath?

The same company which originally built MoltenVK built MoltenGL for specifically this purpose.

https://moltengl.com/moltengl/

Awesome! Maybe some company like that could offer their driver for free to blender community, as a marketing strategy. I believe that even have some space to a sector giant (like autodesk) acquire this type of company.

It's probably possible yes.

I don't know if one already exist for OpenGL, but for Vulkan there's MoltenVK: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK

A lot of business have your niche or micro localization. It don't become a unicorn, but can make money sufficiently to be a life style business. As some saas are like grocery store.

Maybe the author is talking about this type of "local/nich tech business"... No?

Watched a talk that the CEO gave, and he describes it by analogy to YouTube.

Before YouTube, it was difficult and expensive to broadcast video. YouTube made it effortless, and therefore a bunch of people showed up and created all kinds of things... Some are stupid and weird, others are very lucrative for the creators.

He says that Koji wants to do the same thing for code/apps/interactive content.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q22bQuiY874

This is a very fair point. Many successful businesses are not multi-billion dollar unicorns. I think the question then is, can an aggregator for software-based lifestyle businesses make Koji itself a billion-dollar platform? I'm curious to see where it will go.

A comment off topic of a fashion that police have found in my country, they have discovered gangs are mining bitcoin with theft of electric power. Almost a real gold mine

I have a CNC Laser and do stuff for friends and schools in the area I live. Nothing like a real business, but help to free my mind from my daily work, and I make ~USD 300 per month.

We don't use redux. We are happy using js-data with a rest backend right now. We going to try graph-ql soon.

Is there any starter kit using rest without redux out there?

Actually I’m using react with js-data for a rest backend. I have made some simple forms and list components that abstract a lot of communication with the server.

I thought the same. But, as I started to work with react in a side project, now I really enjoy it. In the beginning is a really mess. But, as you begin to think in a "data stream oriented way" (like you do in Haskell with lists), your templates look like any regular framework. It stay isolated in a function with no more than value substitutions. You even can separate in a different file. The only really JS code I have mixed with html has "if" and "map/for" statements. This is, yet, the uglier part for me (at least, now). BTW: I don't use redux (and I never will!).

Not sure how this

    {isVisible && <div>Hello World</div>}

is uglier than

    <div ng-if="isVisible">Hello World</div>

or

    <div v-if="isVisible">Hello World</div>

or

    {{#if isVisible}}
        <div>Hello World</div>
    {{/if}}

Plus, isVisible in React is not a string but a variable, so you can use Rename Symbol and Find All References on it, inspect its value in your browser's debugger, inspect its type if you are using TS or Flow, and so on.

I love ExtJS, and still use the version 5. This post is very true for me too. I didn't upgrade to version 6 because the new license system and the last versions is still very unstable in my tests.

But I will really miss the JSON-way of creating interface. With Xtypes everything is defined as a json object. And is incredible the customization options of their components. Other thing that I will miss a lot is how well integrated is the presentation components with their data layer.

I think is not that popular yet. Look at this issue for the sublime elixir plugin [1], it's breaks a lot of things and seems stalled for a long time...

[1] https://github.com/vishnevskiy/ElixirSublime/issues/8

I don't know of many Elixir devs who use sublime for their development. IntelliJ, Vim, Emacs, Atom etc..