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The idea in and of itself is not what is being rediscovered. Nobody is reinventing the wheel. It's whether the implementation is ergonomic and powerful that det

• flagrant_taco 3y ago
  Signals have become enough of a buzz word that they may catch on just for the hype, regardless of whether they are particularly powerful or ergonomic.
  • naasking 3y ago
    I feel like signals have been a buzzword for almost 10 years now.
    • flagrant_taco 3y ago
      May just be my memory failing me or the circles I ran in over the years, but I remember the related buzzwords always being observables and streams. I hadn't seen much interest/hype in the actual term "signal" until solidjs used it and push heavily on comparisons with react hooks.
      • naasking 3y ago
        "Signal" has been used in FRP circles for some time [1,2]. The original FRP stuff was events/signals and behaviours. But I agree that JS didn't use this terminology until more recently. S.js is maybe one of the earlier ones, but that was still over 8 years ago. [1] https://scholarworks.rit.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6516&context=theses https://scholarworks.rit.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=651... [2] https://github.com/14427/signal https://github.com/14427/signal [3] https://github.com/adamhaile/S/tree/e897ec1212a073bb1fe695e14cae581f80c4464c https://github.com/adamhaile/S/tree/e897ec1212a073bb1fe695e1...