When you got some time give this a 
read: 
https://gist.github.com/staltz/868e7e9bc2a7b8c1f754#the-introduction-to-reactive-programming-youve-been-missing

On Thursday, March 9, 2017 at 11:08:38 PM UTC+1, Martin Norbäck Olivers 
wrote:
>
> Well, it may very well be that I missed the point of observables, I'll 
> have another look, but my somewhat limited experience using them was that 
> it was easy to lose track of all the event going through a lot of streams.
>
> Maybe what you are looking for is something like the Process in Elm, which 
> is not very useful right now, but with a message API could be used to 
> implement some kind of stream.
>
> Or maybe it's sufficient to have some kind of object in the state that 
> collects certain messages and then subscribes to a future time when it 
> emits them again. The multiple-click is not a really clear-cut example of 
> this as it's just a matter of collecting events and then comparing times.
>
> I find it helps enormously to have examples. Otherwise the discussion 
> about API and constructs can go on without making any progress, because you 
> don't really know what problem you are trying to solve, instead you have a 
> solution (streams) in search of a problem.
>
> Den torsdag 9 mars 2017 kl. 22:43:41 UTC+1 skrev Răzvan Cosmin Rădulescu:
>>
>> I agree with you on mostly everything. I think the current architecture 
>> with one state, update etc. works really well. The only thing is I see 
>> streams (reactive objects in general) is that when they *fulfill* their 
>> objective they will call the update function. Take for example debounce 
>> with 500ms interval, every 500ms it should trigger the update function with 
>> the latest object from the stream, that's it. I see this as a very natural 
>> way to extend the current architecture and I feel it fits very well, at 
>> least at this theoretical level, I don't know enough to think about the 
>> implementation, race conditions (if they were an issue), side effects etc.
>>
>> So, to recap, I'm not talking about using reactive objects to drive the 
>> state directly, but to manage incoming data through time transforms, which 
>> then trigger updating the state. I don't know if I was clear enough, I hope 
>> you get what I mean.
>>
>> <<The fact that you can combine observables and get very "complex" 
>> effects is true, but the point of Elm is not to make programs complex, but 
>> to make them simple>> here you missed the point, you don't combine 
>> observables to make a more complex program, but exactly the opposite, to 
>> manage complexity through time-aware transform operators.
>>
>>>

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