Invitation for technical discussion on next-generation Thunderbird

[Ben Bucksch]

Magnus Melin wrote on 23.04.2017 20:27:
> This is also a sure way of making adaption of ready 3:rd party 
> libraries a non starter. 

I did just that in my prototype. I had replace my own IMAP 
implementation with a third-party IMAP library, and still used my JS 
collections, and it works fine.

And it saved a *lot* of code, because the collection library does things 
I'd otherwise have to manually write everywhere in the API and the 
application and UI code.

Please don't judge before you've tried it.

>> If the collections were observable
>>
>> First, just because a collection is observable doesn't mean it's 
>> writable by the consumer. These are distinct qualities.
>
> The component probably do not want to observe data changes inside itself. 

No, the component makes the changes and the consumer observes (possibly 
read-only).