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> all inspired by Elm

No, Elm is just another implementation, not the invention.

Well, it seems to me that the creators of the mentioned frameworks cite Elm as their inspiration – even if it wasn't the genesis of the concept.

One of those frameworks you mentioned is React, so that’s not quite true. Elm is cited in things like Redux, but React was first deployed on the Facebook website a year or more before Elm was even first released. And FRP has been around much longer.

Yes, I meant Redux specifically, and all the other Elm derivative frameworks. I think that was clear.

> I think that was clear.

Not really. You didn't mention Redux and you explicitly mentioned React, hence my clarification.

What is the invention? Honest question, not familiar with this stuff. Comments make it hard for non-experts to follow the discussion.

Carl Hewitt's Actors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model

Unfortunately, the Wikipedia article (that I wrote many years ago) is way out of date :-(

See the following for Actors:

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3418003

With regards to Elm and some others, you have Functional reactive programming, reactive programming, Rx, it goes by a variety of names. It’s most famous for transforming UI development some 8? 10? years ago with the widespread adoption of React. But it’s been around longer in various forms. Implementations can widely vary but the general concepts are very similar.

Actors are something different.

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