Streams and functional reactive programming are the future of all user interfaces.

Streams and functional reactive programming are the future of all user interfaces. State management, asynchronous behaviour and user input all fall under this abstraction in a unified way.

Rx is the biggest library in this space, RxJS, the JavaScript version developed at Netflix is basically baked into new Angular but you can use it independently of any framework. There are other streaming libraries which I plan to get deeper into as well, particularly Most.js

The future of civilization rests with these fine people (who are currently betting against it).

The future of civilization rests with these fine people (who are currently betting against it).

The tone turns somber.

“Sometimes I think about what would happen to the future if a bomb went off at one of our meetings,” Mr. Buttram said.

Mr. Hummer said, “A bomb would set back civilization for years.”