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FRP is an interesting topic (I thought so anyway, I wrote a paper on it for my MS). It doesn't seem to have caught on widely as a paradigm, with a few exceptions I'm aware of (Elm, Meteor).

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Rx (for C#), RxJS (for Javascript), Bacon.js.

Definitely not 'widely' but there are a few library implementations out there.

I reckon that the reason for this is that it's most useful when the interactivity is high (i.e. there are a lot of events to react to), but most applications (desktop, web) don't have a high enough number of events to make learning a new paradigm 'worthwhile'.

I had thought the most widely used implementation of FRP was in ReactiveCocoa.

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