Awesome work about samsara HOT 2 CLOSED

Wow. Thanks! Messages like these definitely make me want to commit more time to the project. You seem to grok many of the core ideals, and I'm always looking for strong contributors.

The changes I was trying to experiment with the noqueue branch and others were to get the "stream" style programming working better with batching and dependencies. For example a MergedStream should only fire an event once even if several streams feeding into it are firing simultaneously, so there must be some sort of batching, which means you have to wait for some time before acting. Then if one MergedStream subscribes from another, the waiting logic becomes a little more complicated. Also I was struggling with subscribing and unsubscribing streams while they were active and having all the logic be consistent. With my time off from the project, I certainly have been getting more ideas on how to handle these cases elegantly. That said I'm always interested in discussing architectural decisions with others.

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I really feel like this is very important work and I hope you can figure this out. Again:

1. A stable core API of this project is the basic Node/Surface/Context api with the layout primitives of transform, opacity, size, align and origin. These are excellent primitives.
2. Representing values that change over time is done via the Transitionable api. This API reminds me a lot of the Animated api on React Native and is a proven flexible and powerful for a wide variety of animation needs. It's one of my favorite parts of React Native and I am glad it's here.
3. This project has a very strong notion of computed input values that are kept in sync with animation. No other major UI library provides a consistent stable abstraction of gestures, mouse inputs and other inputs that directly factor into layout and animation. The only other libraries that I know of that provide a super strong notion of computed values are Vue.js and Mobx (Moon.js is another recent excellent example). Most importantly this library acknowledges that the most important thing is to keep derived values in sync with sources of truth, a principle that undergirds React but Samsara takes it to a whole new level that is more useful for real animated apps.
4. The flat rendering product of this library is super unique.
5. This library has a very unique high level take on what constitutes a View. By removing data sync, business logic, and other view considerations and truly only considering animation, coordination, and layout, it really increases the focus and it's a great innovation.
6. Most importantly you are trying to get a working ScrollView that works intelligently with vertical and horizontal layout, has physics based animation, supports view recycling and more, which we all know are golden keys to surpassing native apps.

So I am totally rambling and repeating myself again but the core message here is: please don't stop. :)

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