C++ Reactive Programming

Advantages of the Stream programming model

Traditional OOP programs model hierarchies well, and processing hierarchies is mostly a difficult process compared to processing a linear collection. In the case of the Stream programming model, we can treat the input as a stream of entities put into a container and the output as a bag of entities, without modifying the input data stream. Using C++ generic programming techniques, we can write container-agnostic code to process streams. Some advantages of this model are:

• Stream programming simplifies program logic
• Streams can support lazy evaluation and functional style transforms
• Streams are better suited for the concurrent programming model (Source Streams are immutable)
• We can compose functions ...