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by jb1991 1866 days ago
With regards to Elm and some others, you have Functional reactive programming, reactive programming, Rx, it goes by a variety of names. It’s most famous for transforming UI development some 8? 10? years ago with the widespread adoption of React. But it’s been around longer in various forms. Implementations can widely vary but the general concepts are very similar.

Actors are something different.