The current event-based model of web client programming lacks of a high level abstraction for concurrency and communication when many interactions are involved. The design of JavaScript runtime in the browser is very simple and chains steps of input handling and computation of output in a sequential way. This definition describes exactly a subset of programs well handled by the synchronous-reactive model. It proposes constructs to express parallel tasks communicating through broadcasted signals enforcing a static hypothesis of determinism, coherency and causality that improve programs composition. It is then interesting to consider client events as inputs and web view elements as outputs of a synchronous-reactive program. We describe here the design of pendulum, a language extension implementing those principles and targeting web client programming, which generates fast sequential code.
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10:30 25mTalk | A Reactive Interpretation of Session-Based Concurrency (In Progress Paper) REBLS Jaime Arias INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes, Mauricio Cano , Jorge A. Pérez University of Groningen, The Netherlands Pre-print | ||
10:55 25mTalk | Synchronous-Reactive Web Programming REBLS DOI | ||
11:20 25mTalk | Towards a Comprehensive Multitier Reactive Language REBLS | ||
11:45 25mTalk | I Now Pronounce You Reactive and Consistent: Handling Distributed and Replicated State in Reactive Programming REBLS Florian Myter Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, Tim Coppieters Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, Christophe Scholliers Universiteit Gent, Belgium, Wolfgang De Meuter Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Link to publication DOI |