C++ Reactive Programming

Reactive Programming Model – Overview and History

The X Windows system, Microsoft Windows, and IBM OS/2 Presentation Manager made GUI programming popular on the PC platform. This was a major shift from the character mode user interface and batch process style programming models that existed before them. Responding to events became a major concern for software developers worldwide and platform vendors resorted to the creation of low-level C-based APIs that relied on function pointers and callbacks to enable programmers to handle the events. The programming models were mostly based on the co-operative multithreaded model, and with the advent of better microprocessors, most platforms began to support pre-emptive multithreading. Handling events ...