if I can say it, I think Spec has several design flaws, that prevent us to
actually use it productively.
1st: I believe Spec is 80% of what Morphic should do by it self, but since is
now that monster no body wants to take by the horns, Spec provides a layer.
2nd: The original idea of Spec is to produce composable objects that can be
some-kind described and then reused by plugging them, but
- is an idea that has a lot of sense is we have a UI builder… which we dont. 2
- the metadata itself is not very well defined (I would like something like the
ones in VW and StX, but is like a weird array right now), because of this, Spec
has created some “in the middle” way to define specs in a more “declarative
way”, breaking the original design (the one I just pointed)
3rd: Frankly, with this “more declarative way” spec adopted more or less the
same path glamour took. But if this is the point, glamour does a really better
work on the “declarative” part. Of course, it does that at the cost of being
less reusable, but well… we are talking about Spec, not Glaour here :)
So, to summarise, IMHO:
- Spec wouldn’t have much sense in a well-defined, clean, Morphic
Not really we need a way to express and reuse logic. This is what we saw
with alain so we will valueholder and may be spec to compose widgets
but we will see.
- Even as a layer, Spec still does not has much sense without:
-- a rebuild of the descriptive model
-- shrinking of the api
-- cleaning of announcement mess
-- an UI builder to use it.
yes
cheers,
Esteban
On 19 Dec 2014, at 17:32, nacho <0800na...@gmail.com> wrote:
I too prefer Morphic over Spec. I find Spec too much verbose. And in fact,
Morphic as presented in the Self language it's a much modern approach to
building UIs than Spec which is pure code. So as complicated as it might
have become, I'm still attached to Morphic.
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