Related Work

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Cybernetics describes the “closed signaling loop”, the essence of Unidirectional Data Flow architectures (aka MVI or Model View Intent).
Redux (and Flux) are popular Javascript state management frameworks organized around Unidirectional Data Flow. There are similar implementations for different platforms
re-frame/Clojure. Unidirectional Data Flow for Clojurescript
Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) is not new.
ReactiveX is a popular reactive programming implementation for many different imperative languages.
Mobius is another take on Unidirectional Data Flow for the Android platform.
Observers aren’t new.
Cycle.js Javascript reactive library.
MobX Javascript reactive library.
REScala Scala reactive library
Apple’s Combine.
Java Flow.
State Charts(pdf).
X State, state chart library.
Event Bus/Pub-Sub is a pattern for building reactive style architectures.
Elm, an elegant functional programming language for the web.
Eve, an innovative language with reactive blocks of code.
Flapjax language.
Designware: Software Development by Refinement (pdf), this paper presents ideas for building a system through composition.
Data flow programming (pdf) is not new.
Incremental.
Temporal Logic.
Reactive Imperative Programming with Dataflow Constraints. In this paper the authors build a very similar bipartite data flow dependency graph.
Garnet and Amulet (pdf) are toolkits for developing software using similar data flow techniques.
Picturing Quantum Processes.
An Invitation to Applied Category Theory.