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Is what we're talking about any different from declarative programming? That term has been in use for several decades
by wutbrodo 7y ago
Is what we're talking about any different from declarative programming? That term has been in use for several decades
- chewxy 7y agoThe portion of comment I was replying to was "no start or end" . This is reactive programming. Having said that, other than Excel and some cute UI things, I've not seen much utility in reactive paradigms. Hence I am bearish on reactive programming. Someone please correct me.
- dymk 7y agoReactive programs don't have to be declarative. You can express a reactive program imperatively. The defining feature of a reactive program is that relationships between inputs and outputs are automatically tracked, and changing an input will automatically update the dependent outputs. Facebook had a whole experimental language (now abandoned) for writing reactive programs with imperative code: http://skiplang.com/ http://skiplang.com/