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Re:Reactive (Dataflow) Programming in Java and Clojure with ... by the_af on Thursday February 20, 2014 @03:19PM (#7273273)
To be honest I'm not even sure what reactive programming means. I took the Reactive Programming course from Coursera, by Odersky, Kuhn & Meijer, and in the forums Kuhn explicitly said it's not functional reactive programming.

I'll admit I'm confused by the relationship between FRP, RP and Akka's brand of RP. The only thing I'm certain is that Akka's RP != FRP. The assignments from the course were full of side-effects, mutability and global variables.

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Re:Reactive (Dataflow) Programming in Java and Clojure with ... by seanmcdirmid on Thursday February 20, 2014 @06:54PM (#7274514)
Rx is not FRP, for sure, but even most impure FRP systems (like flapjax) are not really FRP given a pure definition.

"Reactive" is quite vague. The earliest programming systems labelled "reactive" were meant for expressing low level real time control behavior, but these days the word could just as well be related to UI or enterprise/web data processing (note, that the above projects don't really help with UI, they are more for the latter!).

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