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Discussion on: What common programming concept has the wrong name?

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Kirill Shestakov

That's a very good point. Unidirectional data flow is one way to achieve reactiveness and declarativeness, but it doesn't have to be like that. You can also write React in an imperative and non-reactive way, so why is it even called React?

I personally like a different reactive pattern more, namely, based on observed and computed variables (or independent and dependent variables if you want), similar maybe to MobX and the like.