Program Wild And Scary! Apologize For Nothing

Some programmers value rigid structure and rule of code law.

It is a pretty good policy, very similar to strip mining, no surprises, no dangers, no need to dig tunnels.

Such an approach, does lead to wisdom, and it is precious, but it is very narrow.

You get, stability, but you need a team of developers, who are approaching wise.

I am a maverick, because I have always programmed alone, and always moves at such speeds that teams slowed me down.

This morning a person unraveled upon one of my poems, if he was as intelligent as programmers often are.

He would have been trying to say that the operator combineLatest, is of the Observables world, and not the world of Signals.

(I think he just looked at my Visual Programming Artwork, and shot a comment without braining.)

But lets assume, that he was very intelligent.

So the difference between a Signal and Observable, is that Observables are smart enough to clean up after themselves.

Whereas, signals, are beautifully simple, and just sit there, until your application, that relies on them, starts cleaning up.

I see Observables as a program, and to me Signals, are just reactive variables.

To explain combineLatest with Observables, is harder, because observables are more complex than signals.

Signals just broadcast values, shoting out notifications of updates, Observables come with Operators that create entire programs.

Functional Reactive Programming, this great revolutionary thing, is just Observable and Operators.

Let me explain combineLatest once more, we are going to use an email.

Think of it as a distant server you never check, that forwards a summary to your inbox.

Imagine you have 3 people in that address-book, combineLatest would wait for all of them to send you a message.

Before even activating, and send you an email with all three messages, and then, keep you updated, each time any one of the senders sent a message.

And again it would send you all thee messages, but now only the latest message would be fresh, the other two you would have already seen.

The thinking here is, something has changed, and things are different, here is an update, not all of it is new.

But things are not the same, so here you go.

Whether it is an observable piping messages into a combineLatest, or three little signals that just hold colors, it does not matter.

combineLatest is not attached to anything specific, it is not functional reactive programming, of Observalbes.

It is just good, and wise programming.

The world of programming is pretty large, I have in fact narrowed my abilities and strategized about wisdom.

I abandoned all my languages, but JavaScript, I will never look beyond ECMAScript.

I am convinced there is no time for such fancies, and focusing all my efforts on a Visual Programming Language, is also a narrowing.

But, looking to other programs, and searching for ideas, is not about strip mining, as again there is no time.

You have to look everywhere, and follow your nose, pocket all the lovely ideas, and keep on trucking.

Delivering software demands a narrowing to focus on one thing, but learning and expanding our knowledge is the opposite.

It is the realm of mavericks, I have absolutely no intention of using some Functional Reactive Library.

I will use AI, to build on what I have learned from others.

The finest example of that is me asking AI, to recreate Erlang’s OTP under JavaScript, and got see Agents in JavaScript.

I actually did that for all languages I could think of, so see what AI can uncover for me, Prolog was also enchanting.

JavaScript has a history of borrowing from functional programming, that is what map, filter and reduce represents.

And now with the aid of AI, there is nothing to stop anybody from borrow all the things from everywhere.

The world of programming is not about rigid classification, it is about mutation, and out of control wizards, and mavericks.