Sadly, 'reactive' -- like OOP -- seems to be one of those words that gets reinterpreted to meaninglessness. The definition I'm most familiar with, from the Reac

Sadly, 'reactive' -- like OOP -- seems to be one of those words that gets reinterpreted to meaninglessness. The definition I'm most familiar with, from the Reactive Manifesto,[0] seems like it would fit Go's channels just fine... but anything that puts Go and Erlang and Node.js in the same box might be too broad to be useful. [0] http://www.reactivemanifesto.org/#reactive-applications http://www.reactivemanifesto.org/#reactive-applications