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.