Immer Alternatives

immer reviews and mentions

• Text Editor Data Structures: Rethinking Undo
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Dec 2023

  I've been working on an editor (not text) in C++ and pretty early got into undo/redo. I went down the route of doIt/undoIt for commands but that quickly got old. There was both the extra work needed to implement undo separately for every operation, but also the nagging feeling that the undo operation for some operation wasn't implemented correctly.

  In the end, I switched to representing the entire document state using persistent data structures (using the immer library). This vastly simplified things and implementing undo/redo becomes absolutely trivial when using persistent data structures. It's probably not something that is suitable for all domains, but worth checking out.

  https://github.com/arximboldi/immer

• Show HN: A hash array-mapped trie implementation in C
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jul 2023

  How does this compare to https://github.com/arximboldi/immer (other than the C/C++ difference)?

  Also, it's my understanding that, in practice, persistent data structures require a garbage collector in order to handle deallocation when used in a general-purpose way. How does your implementation handle that?

• Text Editor Data Structures
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jun 2023

  You might be interested in ewig and immer by Juan Pedro Bolivar Puente:

  https://github.com/arximboldi/ewig

  https://github.com/arximboldi/immer

  See the author instantly opening a ~1GB text file with async loading, paging through, copying/pasting, and undoing/redoing in their prototype “ewig” text editor about 27 minutes into their talk here:

  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sPhpelUfu8Q

  It’s backed by a “vector of vectors” data structure called a relaxed radix balanced tree:

  https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/169879/files/RMTrees.pdf

  That original paper has seen lots of attention and attempts at performance improvements, such as:

  https://hypirion.com/musings/thesis

  https://github.com/hyPiRion/c-rrb

• value semantics and spans/views
  1 project | /r/cpp | 11 Jun 2023

  You’re absolutely right, however people have been putting in the “extra efforts” required for efficiency. Check out immer if you’re interested.

• How to synchronize access to application data in multithreaded asio?
  3 projects | /r/cpp | 8 Jun 2023

  The C++ immer library: https://github.com/arximboldi/immer

• Purely Functional Data Structure by Chris Okasaki [pdf]
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 May 2023

  For C++ check this one out - https://github.com/arximboldi/immer

• Persistent and immutable data structures written in C++14
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 10 May 2023
• Introducing B++ Trees, a C++ B+ Tree library
  3 projects | /r/cpp | 24 Apr 2023

  Yeah I agree that I should link that wikipedia page in the docs, I'll do that as soon as I get a chance. immer (https://github.com/arximboldi/immer) also links that page in its docs, for the exact same reason I'm sure. Interestingly, there is a lot of overlap between persistent data structures in the functional programming sense and persistent data structures in the persisted-to-disk sense because persistent data structures in the FP sense are one of the best ways to guarantee atomic updates and safe failure recovery in a persisted-to-disk system! Btrfs and ZFS, as well as many databases, are at their core basically just copy-on-write B+ trees.

• What are some architectural patterns for creating a game editor.
  1 project | /r/gameenginedevs | 11 Mar 2023

  I’ve never tried it, but I love the idea of implementing editor scene state using immutable data structures like https://github.com/arximboldi/immer With that, every edit would append a new node to a list of scene states. Undo/redo becomes iterating your view of the scene up and down through that list. Can’t screw up an undo function if there’s never any work to do :P

• TypeScript Without Side Effects
  4 projects | /r/typescript | 22 Feb 2023

  I have! I think it's related to the C++ immer library which I used several years ago in Vortex. It's kinda like the previous generation of ValueScript. 🍻

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