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pacala
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Don’t Be Scared Of Functional Programming
Reactive programming is functional programming for events. You can run but you can't hide.
lightblade
on July 2, 2014
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"Functional" reactive programming is the functional programming for events. Reactive programming is actually pretty broad.
jonsterling
on July 2, 2014
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No, Functional Reactive Programming is not about events.
seanmcdirmid
on July 2, 2014
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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
on July 5, 2014
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Nah, FRP is fundamentally about continuous time.
seanmcdirmid
on July 2, 2014
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Imperative reactive programming via Esterel has been a thing since the 80s, you know.
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