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Jochem Stoel

Yeah but still we need streams and emitters.

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JavaScript Joel

For sure. I use event emitters also. I usually tie those in together with RXJS.

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Jochem Stoel

You know, everybody is like rxjs and mocha and Jasmine and mojiscript and asynchronous curry ketchup frameworks but to me they are just collections of 'helpers' from other people that I like to write myself most of the time. Functional programming to me is closely related to context free development and that means elimiting dependencies. If functional programming really insists on being a thing then don't clean up only the language but also the rest.