A Short Introduction to Reactive Programming

The term reactive got famous recently. Not only did it get trending, but it has started ruling the software development sector with new blog posts articles every day, and presentations, emerging frameworks and libraries, and more. Even the big IT companies that are often referred to as market giants, such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, and Netflix, are not only supporting and using reactive programming themselves, but they've even started releasing new frameworks for the same.

So, as a programmer, we are wondering about reactive programming. Why is everyone getting crazy about it? What does reactive programming exactly mean? What are the benefits of reactive programming? And, finally, ...

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