Everything about Functional reactive programming

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Functional reactive programmingA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Reactive Programming without FunctionsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Software EngineeringThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Functional reactive programming from first principlesCited 43 times
5. Go sideways: Arrow (computer science)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: HaskellA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Functional reactive programming from first principles

  Zhanyong Wan, Paul Hudak · 2000 · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 43 citations

• Asynchronous functional reactive programming for GUIs

  Evan Czaplicki, Stephen Chong · 2013 · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 24 citations

• Testing and debugging functional reactive programming

  Ivan Perez, Henrik Nilsson · 2017 · Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages · 22 citations

• Towards a Common Categorical Semantics for Linear-Time Temporal Logic and Functional Reactive Programming

  Wolfgang Jeltsch · 2012 · Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science · 22 citations

• Higher-order functional reactive programming without spacetime leaks

  Neelakantan R. Krishnaswami · 2013 · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 11 citations

• Functional reactive programming, refactored

  Ivan Perez, Manuel Bärenz, Henrik Nilsson · 2016 · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 9 citations

• Modal FRP for all: Functional reactive programming without space leaks in Haskell

  PATRICK BAHR · 2022 · Journal of Functional Programming · 8 citations

• Fault tolerant functional reactive programming (functional pearl)

  Ivan Perez · 2018 · Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages · 7 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Reactive Programming without Functions

  Bjarno Oeyen, Joeri De Koster, Wolfgang De Meuter · 2024 · The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming · 4 citations

• Reactamole: functional reactive molecular programming

  Titus H. Klinge, James I. Lathrop, Peter-Michael Osera · 2024 · Natural Computing · 2 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Software EngineeringRoger S. Pressman, Bruce Maxim · 1982
• Chemical Process SafetyDaniel A. Crowl, Joseph F. Louvar · 1989
• Treaty Occupationay ToxicologySuelen Queiroz · 2010
• Human cytomegalovirusesAndrew D. Yurochko · 2014
• Practical Electronics for InventorsPaul Scherz · 2000
• 📕Cell deathGerry Melino, David Vaux · 2010
• Functional Reactive ProgrammingStephen Blackheath, Anthony Jones · 2016
• 📕Learn Scala ProgrammingSlava Schmidt · 2018

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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