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What are your views on Functional Reactive Programming and Cycle.js?
It's an exciting direction for sure. I actually interviewed the author and see the technology promising. It's always the same. You need projects like Cycle to experiment with ideas so they can flow back to mainstream or become mainstream themselves.
Cycle resolves some of my gripes with React. Particularly this is one of those pet peeves of mine and it simply disappears in Cycle. It also brings new problems. How do you deal with cross-cutting concerns like drag and drop? How do you debug Cycle applications through a browser (I mean breakpoints for one)?
You can also see the trend in technologies like Angular 2 (Rx!). As a technology becomes more popular, perhaps it will be wrapped into an easier to consume format (I mean API, docs, support). It would not surprise me a lot if we saw even more FRP influence in the near future.
A lot of these ideas go way back. It just seems they need their time to mature before larger amounts of people can begin to adopt them. You can see the same with React. The ecosystem has received a lot of influence from ClojureScript, Om, and all that. React in turn has shaped Angular 2 and other following technologies. And maybe those feed back and force React to improve.