foam3

Thanks for > Any thoughts you can share? A while back I wrote a blog post that mentioned this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32495133 People posted links to bunch of interesting projects in the comments, probably the closest to this specific issue was FOAM: https://github.com/kgrgreer/foam3 Looked interesting but I had bunch of questions on whether it's practical enough to be useful. It comes to the problem from the modeling angle, and I get a bit too much OOP/UML vibes from it for my taste. --- The way I've tackled this in my projects is basically moving them closer to HATEOS, avoid using the "business terms" in UI code, do most of the logic on the backend, and let the API and frontend code "speak the UI langauge." Basically how HTMX works conceptually, but not all the way to HTML partials. Server driven UI is also a close concep

Thank you for sharing that video! Your foam project looks fascinating too: https://github.com/kgrgreer/foam3

I wrote a BASIC to JS compiler/transpiler that includes all of the programs from "BASIC Computer Games" as examples. You can try it out in your browser at: https://codepen.io/kgr/full/yLQyLjR Just select the game you want to to run from the top-left list box, then press the "Compile" button and you'll see the translated JS source in the right text-area. Then press the "Run" button to run it. The source code for the compiler is available at: https://github.com/kgrgreer/foam3/tree/429f2fd2b4cef0e37996a...

Sort of related but an interesting idea is take it one step further with the Feature Oriented Active Modeler (FOAM) [1,2] paradigm and use code to model your whole system, which generates diagrams model, and runnable code in whatever language needed. The project is still young and it may not be practical today with the available tooling but it seems like a cool idea and project. It is influenced by the unix principle of “coding the perimeter not the area” which is essentially factoring your dev tasks into building NxM capabilities, but instead of building NxM things individually build N+M tools that can be composed into NxM capabilities [2]. So with FOAM the idea is if we want to maintain a model of our software, and build it as well, what if we can use one composable tool to generate both, rather than model everything and code it separat

I think FOAM does most of what the author is asking for. A quick explanation is provided in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4LbUv5FsGQ And more details can be found at: https://github.com/kgrgreer/foam3#videos FOAM is a modelling framework that generates cross-language boilerplate for you, but it takes a much broader view of what constitutes boilerplate than most systems. Typically, it can generate between 95-98% of a working cross-language cross-tier system. FOAM helps you create features for modelled data. Features include things like a Java/Javascript/Swift classes to hold your modelled data, code to marshall to/from JSON/XML/CSV/etc., various GUI Views, and support for storing your data in various databases or file formats. However, FOAM models are themselves modelled, meaning they're afforded all of the above benefits as