Escaping the event loop: an alternative control structure for multi-threaded GUIs

Abstract

The event-driven, or reactive, programming style of the contemporary CUt is a majorreason they are difficult to program. This is compounded in a distributed application.The reactive style, however, reflects the mismatch between multithreaded interfaces anda single threaded process, and is actually the equivalent of continuation passing style,a source code transformation used by some compilers. Using continuations for callbackseliminates much of the difficulty of the reactive style. We...