Thank you for posting this link again. It has led me to an interesting paper on a related paper co-authored by Martin Odersky called "Deprecating the Observer Pattern with Scala.React"
Interestingly, the farther I read into this paper, the more I think the Mozilla Rust community should get behind functional reactive programming. After all, an experimental language created with the intention of being used for creating an experimental browser should probably give serious consideration of the abstractions used for event handling.
I also found a talk on FRP, for anyone who's curious:
http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/176887/files/DeprecatingOb...
Interestingly, the farther I read into this paper, the more I think the Mozilla Rust community should get behind functional reactive programming. After all, an experimental language created with the intention of being used for creating an experimental browser should probably give serious consideration of the abstractions used for event handling.
I also found a talk on FRP, for anyone who's curious:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HMKNexdyOw
...the slides for which are here:
http://www.slideshare.net/edwardamsden/introduction-to-funct...