Also a popular Minecraft modding framework https://fabricmc.net/

Everything has collisions unless it's an invented word. And even then, you might find prior art.

Microsoft also called their new replacement for Synapse Fabric. So Microsoft has at least two projects named Fabric.

Is there a good resource on naming things? Or a catalogue of brilliant names?

That's a rather obscure conflict, when you think that the two have no domain overlap

I see fabric python library (open source ssh automation) https://pypi.org/project/fabric/

No connection to microsoft.

They should have called it Atlas :)

> In my experience, the only benefit they bring is removing the need to understand the syntax

It also offers better discovery—an additional major barrier if you aren't used to fighting documentation.

Maybe one advantage is there aren’t things like syntax errors to deal with, or naming things. The structure makes things purely functional and allows for multiple outputs from a block as well as optional inputs. Seems to me that it removes a lot of the incidental complexity in writing shaders (syntax, linear structure, specifying inputs, imperative shader language, etc)

Speaking of Apple platforms, yeah, this was my big problem with Interface Builder. I couldn’t get anywhere with serious Apple platforms development until SwiftUI came along.

Is it realtime?