What does HackerNews think of cells?

The reactive programming idea reminded me of Ken Tilton and "Cells", which exploits the flexibility of CLOS (the Common Lisp Object System) to create a reactive programming language on top of Common Lisp.

https://github.com/kennytilton/cells

and he has slides from a talk

https://github.com/kennytilton/cells/blob/main/Lisp-NYC-2018...

to give context.

Try Kenny Tilton's "Cells":

https://github.com/kennytilton/cells

"Spreadsheet-like expressiveness for CLOS, the Common Lisp Object System."

He used this to write a GUI called "Cello":

https://github.com/kennytilton/Cello/

See Kenny Tilton's Cells project, which more or less does the inverse.

https://github.com/kennytilton/cells

I wonder if this is any relation to Kenny Tilton's Lisp project from a decade ago, also named Cells: https://github.com/kennytilton/cells

This sounds very similar to Kenny Tilton's Cells package for Common Lisp: https://github.com/kennytilton/cells

I haven't had occasion to use Cells, but I'm glad to be reminded of it, as I may have a use for it soon.

Reading the title I was expecting some Lisp/Haskell...

While you can do that, Python doesn't make your life easier if you want to go functional, really. There's only map/reduce/filter, one-line lambdas (that get really messy really fast), no currying, etc. (however, comprehensions are fine)

I appreciate the effort of the OP in questioning the fact of dataflow implementations, and I suggest him to further explore the world of functional languages - it's huge and resourceful, while the quality of the content written is surprisingly high on average - as he may even find a working implementation for the problem he was trying to solve (happens way too often to me).

BTW, a quick google brought me to this [1] - I'm not sure if it's exactly what we are talking about, but seems related.

[1]: https://github.com/kennytilton/cells