"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 termino

"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...