Re:Functional Reactive Programming
by cybrox on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @09:49AM
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I agree that the surrounding framework (and I'd like to add also additional libraries) have a huge impact on this experience.
The codebase I have worked on might be a bit of an edge-case too, as it was used in realtime audio/video communication, so ms-timing, order of async operations and keeping a consistent state were absolutely necessary.
Using Rx for such complex, long-lived business logic is probably a long shot from using it for a cleanly structured SPA for example. I've used a lot of reactive concepts in applications that simply fetched and displayed data and in those cases, I really enjoyed it.
The codebase I have worked on might be a bit of an edge-case too, as it was used in realtime audio/video communication, so ms-timing, order of async operations and keeping a consistent state were absolutely necessary.
Using Rx for such complex, long-lived business logic is probably a long shot from using it for a cleanly structured SPA for example. I've used a lot of reactive concepts in applications that simply fetched and displayed data and in those cases, I really enjoyed it.