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0 pointsflagrant_taco2y ago0 comments

Signals have become enough of a buzz word that they may catch on just for the hype, regardless of whether they are particularly powerful or ergonomic.

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naasking2y ago

I feel like signals have been a buzzword for almost 10 years now.

flagrant_tacoOP2y ago

May just be my memory failing me or the circles I ran in over the years, but I remember the related buzzwords always being observables and streams. I hadn't seen much interest/hype in the actual term "signal" until solidjs used it and push heavily on comparisons with react hooks.

naasking2y ago

"Signal" has been used in FRP circles for some time [1,2]. The original FRP stuff was events/signals and behaviours. But I agree that JS didn't use this terminology until more recently. S.js is maybe one of the earlier ones, but that was still over 8 years ago.

[1] https://scholarworks.rit.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=651...

[2] https://github.com/14427/signal

[3] https://github.com/adamhaile/S/tree/e897ec1212a073bb1fe695e1...

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naasking2y ago

I feel like signals have been a buzzword for almost 10 years now.

flagrant_tacoOP2y ago

naasking2y ago

[1] https://scholarworks.rit.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=651...

[2] https://github.com/14427/signal

[3] https://github.com/adamhaile/S/tree/e897ec1212a073bb1fe695e1...

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