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by rybosome 4672 days ago
Fantastic! I've been wanting to learn FRP for quite some time. The fact that this is a follow-up to the awesome Scala course is a bonus.

I can't wait for this to begin. =)

EDIT: The syllabus doesn't mention any FRP libs. I'm surprised, especially as one of the professors is the author of RX. Maybe because there isn't a canonical one in Scala?
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seanmcdirmid 4672 days ago
They don't mention FRP. RX is a subset of FRP oriented around just event streams without continuous signals; think of it as FRP lite. Their actors and futures unit makes me wonder if this is also about concurrency in addition to reactivity. Nothing about state repair at all.

If Conal Elliott ever decides to teach a coursera on FRP...

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tomku 4672 days ago
One of the blog posts[1] I saw announcing it had a few more details than the course page, including a mention of RxJava.

[1]: http://letitcrash.com/post/59504788607/new-coursera-course-o...

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