Electric Clojure: Differential Dataflow for UI

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Electric compiles a unified Clojure/ClojureScript program (example: a 12-line program two‑clocks demo) into a client/server DAG with websocket crossings, running server code on the JVM and client code in CLJS. The compiler generates reactive missionary signals, eliminates request‑waterfalls by streaming server recursion synchronously, and performs automatic resource disposal and interrupting slow queries via offloaded threads. Differential dataflow produces diffs-on-the-wire for backpressure and virtual scroll windows, avoids a virtual DOM (no virtual DOM), and the demos (including a 40x robot playback) work as advertised.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:40Overview
3. 1:00Two Clocks
4. 3:40Simple Example
5. 5:23Durtree Example
6. 9:28How does this scale
7. 10:50Disposal
8. 12:43Clock
9. 13:23Query Cancellation
10. 16:45Lambda
11. 17:40Tudo MVC
12. 19:50Differential Dataflow
13. 21:55Back Pressure
14. 24:10Infinite Scroll
15. 26:25Why Electric

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