This page documents the reactive library underlying Fluid Infusion 6, based around the primitive fluid.cell. I chose the name “cell”, rather than “signal” which is more common in the 2020s JavaScript reactive community, in honour of 3 traditions:
Spreadsheet cells, which are the public’s primeval grounding in reactivity. Kenny Tilton’s Cells system for CLOS, which in 2001, 5 years before the coining of the terms “glitch” and “reactive programming”, had already solved all the problems of reactivity embedded in imperative programming languages.
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