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>>nathan+(OP)
I don’t want to be a party pooper, but from my very cursory look at the page, I don’t think this will go much farther than a very small community. I feel like you’re adding a lot of complexity compared to normal backhand/frontend/websetvices Scenario that everybody already understand.

>>kamma4+QJ
With that mindset, should we just stop trying to improve anything regarding backend/frontend/webservices since "everybody already understand it"?

>>diggan+CN
I second the OP - I'm not sure where the big prize is. I have a feeling that whomever wrote the article thinks there is a 10x (or 100x) improvement to be made, but I was not able to see it.

I find the syntax very clunky, and I have been programming professional Clojure for at least 10 years. It reminds me of clojure.async - wonderful idea, but if you use the wrong sigil at the wrong place, you are dead in the water. Been there, done that - thanks but no thanks.

OTOH I know who Nathan is, so I'm sure there is a gem hidden somewhere. But the article did not convince me that I should go the Rama way for my next webapp. I doubt the average JS programmer will be convinced. Maybe someone else will find the gem, polish it, and everybody will be using a derivative in 5 years.

>>kimi+1R
Well, this article is to help people understand just Rama's dataflow API, as opposed to an introduction to Rama for backend development.

Rama does have a learning curve. If you think its API is "clunky", then you just haven't invested any time in learning and tinkering with it. Here are two examples of how elegant it is:

This one does atomic bank transfers with cross-partition transactions, as well as keeping track of everyone's activity:

https://github.com/redplanetlabs/rama-demo-gallery/blob/mast...

This one does scalable time-series analytics, aggregating across multiple granularities and minimizing reads at query time by intelligently choosing buckets across multiple granularities:

https://github.com/redplanetlabs/rama-demo-gallery/blob/mast...

There are equivalent Java examples in that repository as well.