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Smashing Magazine on functional programming, getting most of it wrong. This is the very moment functional programming jumps the shark. It's too mainstream for
by slapresta 12y ago
Smashing Magazine on functional programming, getting most of it wrong. This is the very moment functional programming jumps the shark.
It's too mainstream for me now, I'll have to switch to reactive programming.
- platz 12y agoToo late, Erik Meijer already declared the term reactive was washed out.
- boothead 12y agoThere's still dependant types!
- pacala 12y agoReactive programming is functional programming for events. You can run but you can't hide.
- lightblade 12y ago"Functional" reactive programming is the functional programming for events. Reactive programming is actually pretty broad.
- jonsterling 12y agoNo, Functional Reactive Programming is not about events.
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoWell, some signals can be event streams if they aren't continuous behaviors. But event streaming systems like Rx provide none of the determinacy guarantees of FRP.
- slapresta 12y agoIsn't it? It's about event streams, right?
- jonsterling 12y agoNah, FRP is fundamentally about continuous time.
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoImperative reactive programming via Esterel has been a thing since the 80s, you know.