Maybe the difference is that you keep control with events, i.e. you can filter, retarget, cancel or otherwise reason in general about the way they propagate? I

Maybe the difference is that you keep control with events, i.e. you can filter, retarget, cancel or otherwise reason in general about the way they propagate? I'm no expert, but the essence of the "reactive functional programming" programming paradigm is that you have composable high level abstractions about the streams of events (e.g. marble diagrams).[1] [1] https://blog.danlew.net/2017/07/27/an-introduction-to-functional-reactive-programming/ https://blog.danlew.net/2017/07/27/an-introduction-to-functi...