Funnily enough, my story of reactive programming started on one of the less-reactive platforms: Adobe Flash. Macromedia, before its acquisition by Adobe, built a sleek framework called Flex (later called Apache Flex). In Flex, one of the main...
“You’ve just done in two hours what it takes the three of us two days to do.” My college roommate was working at a retail electronics store in the early 2000s. Occasionally, the store would receive a spreadsheet of thousands of product prices...