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Society, by dismantling the old illiberal structures (which I agree, were pretty bad) and offering no real substitutes, has done great harm to its future generations.
Its purpose might be to bootstrap the insight machinery, which it accomplished, evidently.
As someone with FRP experience, what do you think is the minumum viable set of functional transformers (like map, filter etc.) that should be implemented for a library like this?
But seriously, Fastflux just continues further in the logical direction established by Redux (and arguably React itself) -- a more reactive approach to software development.
Fastflux does this by using an implementation of the Observable FRP primitive as a superclass for stores and actions.
Also reduction of boilerplate.
For instance: "Do we need yet another flux library?"
Well, why not? The ecosystem is still evolving. By bringing in more ideas and refined approaches, we may well reach equilibrium sooner.
That is a very good description.
I discussed this topic with a colleague recently, and we both agreed that putting thoughts into words takes conscious effort. Though I suspect that is not so for the majority of people, whose default mode of thinking is distinctly verbal, even when not talking or writing.
The internet is a lot like that. Maybe someday this can be a model for the world at large.
It shouldn't be too hard to find a JS implementation. For instance: https://github.com/mdp/gibberish-aes