Building Personal Software with Reactive Databases

Spreadsheets and relational databases can simplify the creation of a variety of software, particularly for end-users who are less familiar with programming. This thesis extends techniques from those tools in three novel ways. First, we show how existing real-world web applications can be extended without doing traditional programming, using a spreadsheet view. Second, we show how text documents can be gradually enriched into personal software tools using similar techniques. Finally, we demonstrate a new reactive relational data architecture for building complex applications with rich interactions and stringent performance requirements. Together, these projects empower both end users and application developers with simpler tools for developing software.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctoral

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2023

Author dc:creator

• Litt, Geoffrey

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Jackson, Daniel

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
• Copyright retained by author(s)

Licence dc:rights.uri

• https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/152650

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/152650