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slapresta
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Don’t Be Scared Of Functional Programming
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.
boothead
on July 2, 2014
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There's still dependant types!
pacala
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Reactive programming is functional programming for events. You can run but you can't hide.
lightblade
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"Functional" reactive programming is the functional programming for events. Reactive programming is actually pretty broad.
jonsterling
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No, Functional Reactive Programming is not about events.
seanmcdirmid
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Well, 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
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Isn't it? It's about event streams, right?
jonsterling
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Nah, FRP is fundamentally about continuous time.
seanmcdirmid
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Imperative reactive programming via Esterel has been a thing since the 80s, you know.
platz
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Too late, Erik Meijer already declared the term reactive was washed out.
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It's too mainstream for me now, I'll have to switch to reactive programming.