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FRP Formulations and Elm's Time-Traveling Debugger

Strange Loop Conference · Talk · YouTube title: "Controlling Time and Space: understanding the many formulations of FRP" by Evan Czaplicki
Why it's here

HN people point to it as the clearest explanation of what FRP actually means and how its flavors differ.

What it covers

Evan Czaplicki's Strange Loop 2014 talk surveys the many formulations of functional reactive programming and how they relate historically and theoretically. It then shows how Elm's variant enables hot-swapping and its time-traveling debugger.