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Reactive programming is functional programming for events. You can run but you can't hide.
by pacala 12y ago
Reactive 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.