Functional Reactive Programming

Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) integrates time flow and compositional events into functional programming. This provides an elegant way to express computation in domains such as interactive animations, robotics, computer vision, user interfaces, and simulation.

Libraries

• Sodium
• Grapefruit
• Reactive
• DataDriven
• Yampa
• wxFruit
• Elerea
• reactive-banana
• Netwire
• Fran (discontinued)

• Hackage packages in the category FRP

Material

• A Survey of Functional Reactive Programming (PDF)
• Conal Elliott’s FRP-related papers and blog posts
• Grapefruit-related publications and talks
• The Yale Haskell group’s latest publications on functional reactive programming
• FRP section of Heinrich Apfelmus' blog

People

• Heinrich Apfelmus
• Antony Courtney
• Conal Elliott
• Patai Gergely
• Andy Gill
• Liwen Huang
• Paul Hudak
• Wolfgang Jeltsch
• Henrik Nilsson
• John Peterson

Blog articles

• Relative time FRP
• Several on Conal's blog
• Demonstrating a Time Leak in Arrowized FRP