> It would be very fun to experiment with a future model in which it will use the python AST and take out variable naming out of the equation.

So what if we use AST as a source for the code structure? Also, there are other metadata such as filename (e.g. reducer.js), path (./components), project dependencies (package.json for JavaScript projects), amount of github stars and forks.

Yes, these things should ideally be taken into account. I have been contacted by a company that is actually working on it: http://sourced.tech/

I'm building a similar app for measuring UI latencies, but as a desktop app (for regressions checks on CI). Your app seems much more universal and platform-agnostic, really cool idea!

I feel your pain. I'd love to play with Cloud ML and their datasets, but seems we don't have any legal options to do it right now.

Thanks, I'm working on it full-time. If you are an everyday Linux user (especially not Ubuntu) and willing to test and/or answer to some questions please reach me out on unknownliveid@hotmail.com.

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If you need a desktop application I'll be happy to discuss all benefits, costs and risks of using React Native for that.

email: unknownliveid@hotmail.com

Good point, thank you. Some things look in that weird way only because my (unfinished) implementation. You could use the exact same control as you would use in vanilla Cocoa app, you just need to write a correct wrapper (ViewManager). Most of the current controls are ported from iOS, I certainly should improve some of them. Also, UIExplorer also a ported app, and being not a great example, should be rewritten to achieve more OSX look and feel.

Update. Filled the issue https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-desktop/issues/52

What do you think about ComponentKit, the Facebook's approach to declarative view model similar to React? You don't need js there.

Author here. In most cases, Electron is much better in many ways.

I'm working on the code editor right now, so I'd like to build something small (few megabytes), performant, but allows me to use the whole js ecosystem.

There are also two alternatives: https://apphub.io/ and https://microsoft.github.io/code-push/. Works for me in the real app very well, even in a synchronous mode in some cases.

One difference between this library and the two you linked to is that ours is fully self-contained -- no accounts/3rd party hosting required :)

The AppHub client is also open source [1] and can be configured to point to any backend [2]. We also support asset updates, and the client has been tested in many production apps.

With CodePush, AppHub, and this, it would be nice to have the community converge on a shared auto-updating client. Perhaps down the road we could see this functionality integrated into React Native itself.

[1] https://github.com/AppHubPlatform/apphub-ios

[2] http://docs.apphub.io/docs/self-hosting

Disclosure: I created AppHub

There's another one I came across recently also https://getsiphon.com/

Is it possible to embed blab? Looks very clean and simple, would be nice to use it as a part of a blog post.

Here's a way to use an iframe to embed a blab in a web page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10529079

For WordPress, you could use an iframe plugin.

Currently, no. But this is our #1 priority. We're aiming for a simple embedding solution, e.g., 1) an html div with gist id attribute (plus loading a JavaScript file); and 2) a WordPress plugin. Stay tuned...