Re:Two Vexing Problems in Functional Programming
by valcron1000 on Friday April 01, 2022 @02:03PM
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For GUI programming I found FRP to be a really good solution. And no, I don't consider React to actually do FRP.
The closest mainstream project to FRP is Angular using RxJS exclusively. You define how each component interacts with each other, and then you delegate to a runtime to actually perform the side effects (change the DOM in this case). Solutions like React + Redux/Elm involve a lot of plumbing that's not relevant to the issue: I just want to define relationships between components, not manually tread changes across a big state tree.
The closest mainstream project to FRP is Angular using RxJS exclusively. You define how each component interacts with each other, and then you delegate to a runtime to actually perform the side effects (change the DOM in this case). Solutions like React + Redux/Elm involve a lot of plumbing that's not relevant to the issue: I just want to define relationships between components, not manually tread changes across a big state tree.