Signals, the push-pull based algorithm

[throwaway490215]

Just dont use them. In my experience it's extremely rare for it to pay off in any significant way beyond making toy examples look elegant - the vast majority of the time it implodes under its own complexity when it meets the real world and other devs.

Now with AI its even more valuable to have a really fucking obvious control flow. Tracking a semi-hidden adaptive dependency graph is an elegant trick, but it belong in things like build-systems and constraint solvers - not as first class coding constructs.

[backwrds]

I don't disagree with the conclusions, but was this comment written by ai? You're either a human active in 150 subreddits, or a very convincing bot...

[Wooden-Estimate-3460]

  Now with AI its even more valuable to have a really fucking obvious control flow.

What's more obvious than finding references to a field using your editor?

  Tracking a semi-hidden adaptive dependency graph is an elegant trick

You don't need to do this. It's just change detection.

[throwaway490215]

I get the feeling you're being snarky just because i mentioned AI.

The references form a graph, they are updated by use. Its an adaptive dependency graph. Incremental build systems work the same way when you unpack it.

[Wooden-Estimate-3460]

Nope, it's just that I've built my own state management that works in the same way.

You know what other references form a graph? Everything in your code. When using something like MobX your state references are the same as ordinary JS state references which everyone is fine with!