Mintdata looks cool, what does the imperative layer that drives the declarative layer look like? It'd be nice if this was a platform where engineers could sell the imperative layers
We've been using our own "Visual SDK" to build large parts of MintData for the past few years.
It's 100% written in TypeScript/React, using decorators (cough: annotations!) and allows us to:
1) add new spreadsheet functions in TypeScript
2) wrap any React component
3) we get the auto-magic property panel UI "for free" & it instantly talks to/from the spreadsheet
For our cloud/backend imperative layer:
4) we use our own real-time stream processor (think: Apache Storm but minus the Clojure stacktraces)
5) the SDK lets us quickly write flow blocks in Java using annotations & connect to all sorts of enterprise-y systems (SQL/NoSQL stores, Queues, File Systems, etc)
@slifin -- in terms of engineers writing & selling those layers, we're open to it -- ping me if you have ideas & we can give you access to the docs & SDK.
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[1] I'd put a link here, but the flamethrowers have come out on this thread :)
Before the others come with torches, I’ll point out we turned on public/free access recently, would be happy to hear your thoughts/feedback on the MintData approach.