I've been on an exploration over the last ~9 months that started from entirely practical goals, better CI/CD for Salesforce, through a cross-domain journey to peak abstraction and back.
My starting goal was to build Busbar, an evolution of the concepts of CumulusCI I created/led at Salesforce.org, a new model of delivery where the composable delivery recipes or patterns themselves were the product, not the packaged artifact.
We did some amazing things with CumulusCI over the last decade. But it still remained locked in its silo within a silo. And, it was more a prototype of the vision for true Composable Delivery.
I quickly came to realize what was lacking was a truly declarative, truly compositional language for building "config", or really n-D complexity Contexts. And that our current type systems weren't built to handle.
I'll be sharing more in the coming days about the code side proof, now built in Rust, I've been hacking away at for months now. Both Busbar, and its first module Typesynth, will be coming to GitHub as open source soon!
This blog is about the abstract theory discovered and evolved along the way. Hopefully it might spark your own discovery of a flipped bit and allow you to escape its vector gravity.
jasonlantz•9mo ago
My starting goal was to build Busbar, an evolution of the concepts of CumulusCI I created/led at Salesforce.org, a new model of delivery where the composable delivery recipes or patterns themselves were the product, not the packaged artifact.
We did some amazing things with CumulusCI over the last decade. But it still remained locked in its silo within a silo. And, it was more a prototype of the vision for true Composable Delivery.
I quickly came to realize what was lacking was a truly declarative, truly compositional language for building "config", or really n-D complexity Contexts. And that our current type systems weren't built to handle.
I'll be sharing more in the coming days about the code side proof, now built in Rust, I've been hacking away at for months now. Both Busbar, and its first module Typesynth, will be coming to GitHub as open source soon!
This blog is about the abstract theory discovered and evolved along the way. Hopefully it might spark your own discovery of a flipped bit and allow you to escape its vector gravity.
- Jason