How does this compare to Missionary?

[kxygk]

This library seems quite minimal and nice. It also seems to be doing something quite similar to Missionary - and I don't feel I fully appreciate the difference (flex's interface looks very simple and limited in scope in comparison). I was just wondering how you saw flex vis a vis Missionary and if you had any general thoughts

It's been a real struggle for me to get anything going with Missionary - there is definitely a learning curve and I don't fully grok how to work with it. For little programming projects where I'm not doing anything too crazy it seems to end up needing more machinery than something like flex. That said it conceptually looks very interesting and I wish I understood it better. They seem to be really solving some highly complex networking synchronization problems. But that's just my halfbaked high level impression

[lilactown]

I've had a similar experience with missionary. I've attempted to learn it a few times and each time bounced off the syntax and jargon it uses. I can't give a detailed comparison because of that. I can tell you that missionary seems very general and quite capable given what the author and others are building over at electric. Perhaps that is the best way to consume it.

For me, flex meets my personal aesthetic sensibilities and needs for building UIs. It draws from a rich conceptual and syntactic history in many other programming languages. It is meant to be a relatively focused, but powerful, library.

Maybe someone else who has experience in missionary can give flex a fair shake and do a deep comparison of the two.

[kxygk]

okay, thanks for the sanity check :))

I've been looking at theirs docs and exchanging some messages with the maintainer and was feeling a bit stupid for still not really getting it. Since the maintainers seem quite responsive, I might try to build a minimal flex example and then see if they can help convert it to missionary to see how it'd look