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reform-swift
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laszlokorte / reform-swift

reform-swift

Swift implementation of the reform dynamic drawing application inspired by Bret Victor's talk "Drawing Dynamic Visualizations"

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What it is

Swift implementation of the reform dynamic drawing application inspired by Bret Victor's talk "Drawing Dynamic Visualizations"

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

I really wish I kept a list of related stuff somewhere… Edit: This comment is a goldmine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34485994 ——- There are lots of hobbyists,…

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-06-23 18:37:54 UTC to 2023-01-23 06:05:31 UTC.

012016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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namuol·Jan 23, 2023Recommendation phrase
I really wish I kept a list of related stuff somewhere… Edit: This comment is a goldmine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34485994 ——- There are lots of hobbyists, academics, and even companies inspired by Bret Victor’s talks alone. I know of at least 2 open source experimental programs that were inspired by specific demos: https://github.com/laszlokorte/reform-swift http://recursivedrawing.com/ I know there are more too but I can’t find them right now. You could probably find a lot of good stuff just searching GitHub for “Bret Victor”. There are lots of people in academia experimenting with programming languages and environments. Try searching for papers that cite Bret Victor as well and I’m sure you’ll find plenty. For a quick glimpse at the academic world without spending hours looking for papers worth reading, I recommend perusin
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g the Strange Loop Conference YouTube channel. There are some interesting experimental programming languages and IDEs out there.
In Ask HN: Has anyone fully attempted Bret Victor's vision?

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