https://github.com/oakmac/erlang-ui-experiment

Experiment with building a UI in Erlang
https://github.com/oakmac/erlang-ui-experiment

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Experiment with building a UI in Erlang

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/oakmac/erlang-ui-experiment
• Owner: oakmac
• License: isc
• Created: 2015-08-10T16:31:03.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-08-10T17:45:07.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-15T11:32:05.754Z (3 months ago)
• Size: 97.7 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.md

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# Erlang UI Experiment

The purpose of this project is to experiment with building a UI using [Erlang].

I've had some ideas around building a text editor that would require strong

concurrency features. Erlang excels at concurrency and has bindings to

[wxWidgets], so I figured this would be a good place to start testing ideas.

Other goals of this project are to refresh my Erlang knowledge and build a UI on

a platform other than a web browser. I love UI programming and have very little

experience developing on platforms other than the web.

**It is unlikely that this project will ever result in either stable or useful

software.** You have been warned ;)

## Concurrent UI Ideas

The rough idea is to have separate aspects of a text editor be completely

isolated from one another. ie: if syntax highlighting crashes, it has no effect

on any other part of the editor.

The genesis of this idea comes from Google Chrome's [tab isolation] and UX

frustrations with the [Atom] editor. While I applaud the design and engineering

effort behind Atom, I can't help but think that using web technologies as a

platform for a text editor is a bizarre case of [Stockholm syndrome] from web

developers with limited exposure to other languages and platforms. Hopefully

this project will provide some clarity as to whether or not this belief is

justified.

## Development

TODO: write me

## License

[ISC License]

[Erlang]:http://www.erlang.org/

[wxWidgets]:http://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/wx/chapter.html

[tab isolation]:https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/site-isolation

[Atom]:https://atom.io/

[Stockholm syndrome]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome

[ISC License]:LICENSE.md