With the async approach you get to send the data to the client when its ready, instead of blocking a thread the whole time its being prepared. For http-kit, you should be using an async handler described in the documentation. After delegating the request to an async handler in a proper way, you can implement … Read more
The first concern – yes the core operations are side effects. However channels don’t have the problems normally associated with mutable references as they don’t represent a “place” – channels are opaque, you cannot inspect them, in fact you can’t even query whether a channel is closed or not beyond reading nil. The second concern … Read more
I think main problem is your assumption about the tackled problem are not quite so, since none of them are tackling the asynchronicity “problem”. The abstractions FRP main idea is propagation of change, think about accomplishing the same thing Excel does, where you define cells depending on each other in a cascade, and when one … Read more