The Meerkat Vision: Language Support for Live, Scalable, Reactive Web Apps
summary
Meerkat presents a language that implements live code and data updates with atomic reconfiguration so UI, state and actions change together; the prototype runs a chat-like demo but the live IDE demo fails on stage. The model enforces causal consistency and glitch freedom using a historiographer-style history, treats services as modular units that can be replicated or sharded, and the toolchain compiles to Rust and Hydroflow aiming to scale beyond single-server sequential databases.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Meerkat Vision intro
- 1:27Current reactive limits
- 3:58Demo: Meerkat prototype
- 9:22Programming model core
- 10:46Scaling challenges
- 11:50Vision for scalable apps
- 14:58Services as modules
- 16:23Local-first support
- 17:05Consistency models
- 18:30Historiographer for causality
- 20:36Live updates & DevOps
- 22:20Implementation goals
- 23:24Q&A
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