design / spec-out successor "directed experiments" to follow #8

[mhuesch]

8 gives us "first contact between Holochain and rep_lang".

after that, what do we want to explore?

some thoughts:

• tracking, in Holochain, of "pinned Values of the same Type"

  • I have a counter which starts at 0 : int and is of type Int
  • I can increment this by arbitrary Int values (including negative ones potentially?)
  • Holochain "holds onto" this value for us (perhaps using Links?) as we "increment" it
  • in reality we will create a flurry of intermediate Holochain Entrys, and a pointer to "the tip of the branch" will be updated each time

• sharing those "tracked computations" among members of a group / neighbourhood

  • everyone can increment the counter

• doing the above 2 things dynamically, so any group / neighbourhood can dynamically create new values, track them in a shared context, and interact with them.

  • I think this is new in Holochain-land, in that it allows "dynamism at the logic layer" where usually the logic is fixed by being a deployed WASM bundle locked by a DNA/zome hash.
  • I think there are other efforts / is other interest in this. no claim it's unique, or "the best". but seems like a new affordance.

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consider looking at https://github.com/sacredcapital/rep_lang/issues/5 for thought on "interface structure".

[mhuesch]

closing this as we have internally aligned on a rough "arc" to follow:

• multiple widgets in one "neighbourhood"
• multiple widgets across multiple "neighbourhoods"

the current working definition of a "neighbourhood" is:

• 1 instance of social_sensemaker DNA running
• 0 or more associated widgets which integrate with the sensemaker / use its API
• ... agents which run / participate in these DNAs and animate them into a network