Ha, thanks! Yeah the reactivity system was born out of trying to get stuff done quickly. I was tired of manually setting variables so I made it easy to "chain" and "adapt" them and stuff. Same thing with the (hacky?) auto-layout system. Shortcuts to get stuff done quick!
it's the best, I reused vue reactivity for gta multiplayer server to track player state changes and write reactive functionality around those changes and people called me crazy for using frontend tech in backend :c
Interestingly, I didn't know Vue had a thing called a Ref until about a week ago. Yet my Refs have a very similar design. Though I do think my Refs are much better and more generally useful.
In fact, I think my Refs might be a genuine breakthrough in compsci, mainly because of .defer(), and I half want to write a doctoral thesis on them just to see if anyone else agrees.