reactive-banana VS Killed by Google

As I grew up on a Macintosh, I was always interested in graphical user interfaces. In my free time, I'm currently working on refreshing my reactive-banana library so that it will hopefully work well with the upcoming JavaScript backend. (The library relies on a few non-trivial garbage collector features, which were not implemented in GHCJS a decade ago. Essentially, I ended up with a program that gave different results, depending on whether it was compiled with GHC native or with GHCJS. 😅)

Another FRP implementation that I think is quite simple is reactive-banana. Heinrich recently refactored the module hierarchy to stratify it based on low-level, mid-level and high-level abstractions: https://github.com/HeinrichApfelmus/reactive-banana/tree/master/reactive-banana/src/Reactive/Banana/Prim

I agree! Having foldMap be available in a monadic context is a big win - here's an example of me asking for it in reactive-banana, along with a motivating example - https://github.com/HeinrichApfelmus/reactive-banana/issues/222. Library authors, please consider adding these instances - your users will thank you!

There are some examples that also use event-switching, like https://github.com/HeinrichApfelmus/reactive-banana/blob/master/reactive-banana-wx/src/BarTab.hs , which also seems to use execute. They use <$ though instead of <$>:

https://killedbygoogle.com/

Their reputation is deserved. Google domains was killed only last year!

And this isn't even the first time I've been burned by Google's decisions. If you're familiar at all with the Google Graveyard, you'll know that Google has a long history of killing off products and services that people have come to rely on. This has happened to me a number of times, in both a personal and professional capacity, and frankly it's getting old.

Just because Google has a couple of decent services that you're willing to pay for doesn't detract from the fact that most of their products have a worse life expectancy than a victorian child in the 1800s. https://killedbygoogle.com

They ruined every single opportunity to be more than an advertising company since Orkut. With scrapped attempts, starts and lack of intention for most of the 2010s to even during the early half of the Pixel Era, they seemingly haven't learnt to stick to something and iterate on it well.

And the fact that over 50% of their revenues come from search and by extension, advertising.

The fact' that til this day, they still haven't evolved from the "throwing shit at the wall then at the fan" strat which explains how they have fumbled so much so quickly.

Yeah. The Google Graveyard really shows how far this can go.

https://killedbygoogle.com

The punchline is that in addition to hundreds of failed hobby projects, their stock is doing great. Monopoly power is a helluva drug.

To me Gemini is just sort of generic and uninteresting. There has to be hundreds or thousands of products and companies based on the name "Gemini" - "Bard" was at least interesting, different and distinct.

I've no idea about the quality of the product itself, I have never had a reason to use it. It's long past cliché now but I wouldn't get too attached to a Google product that is definitely costing a lot of money but which has no clear pathway to turning a profit. I think they will keep it ticking over until the hype train moves on from Chatbots/LLMs, and then it'll join the Google Graveyard @ https://killedbygoogle.com

We're not talking about reliability, we're talking about Google's penchant for killing established products that people use. https://killedbygoogle.com

The website you're referring to: https://killedbygoogle.com/