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<@U2SKJHSGK> Why do you think that? I'm curious to hear what we could improve

Remove compiler plugin and all annotations, make everything (including receiver) explicit. As a bonus it will become Java-compatible.
<https://twitter.com/miha_x64/status/1137677887656603649>

Thanks for the reply. That would be a big departure and not where we want to go unfortunately.

I had the same concerns regarding compose. I had to understand more about the compiler plugin approach and I can see now that there is benefits in it. I feel there is not enough resource about this concept yet and for that reason feels magic and dangerous for developers.

do you think just itself the  ` "returns nothing, has side-effect(s)"` would be also a too big change?
I am just curious, and would like to understand more about the decisions around compose

<@U55D27C95> have you checked this blog post?
<http://intelligiblebabble.com/compose-from-first-principles/>

&gt; feels magic and dangerous for developers.

Yep, patching a data tree is a trivial task which should have as simple solution as possible. And it's not about UI, it's useful for any generic data.