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Asynchronous functional reactive programming for GUIs

Year: 2013

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) mediate many of our interactions with computers. Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) is a promising approach to GUI design, providing high-level, declarative, compositional abstractions to describe user interactions and time-dependent computations. We present Elm, a practical FRP language focused on easy creation of responsive GUIs. Elm has two major features: simple declarative support for Asynchronous FRP; and purely functional graphical layout.

Source: ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)

DOI: 10.1145/2491956.2462161

Authors: Evan Czaplicki, Stephen Chong

Institution: Harvard University

Language: English

Topic: Logic, programming, and type systems

Subfield: Software

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Science Foundation

Award: CAREER: Practical, Expressive, Language-based Information Security