04.07.2018 Meeting Notes

1. Discussion about implicit vs explicit
   1. Two different questions: framework (topology) vs ports inside components
   2. Current status: the clean, concise code that comes from implicit definitions is desirable, yet not clear if it is as expressive.
   3. Challenge: come up with intuitive ways to replace and delete components implicitly.
2. flow-runtime:
   1. Project is not very healthy (development stalled), not up to date with flow
   2. Principles very nice for our project: Babel plugin that does src2src transformations using a library
   3. Decision: Fork flow-runtime or start from scratch? Deferred until we have a more concrete idea of requirements (i.e. specification)
   4. Proposed alternative tool: sweeten/sweet.js (for defining macros)
3. Action plan
   1. Focus on specification for now: most design choices depend on this
   2. Make things concrete with an elaborated example