Applying the reactive programming paradigm: Toward a more declarative application development approach

After almost 10 years from ���The Free Lunch Is Over��� article, where the need to parallelize programs started to be a real and mainstream issue, a lot of stuffs did happened: ��� Processor manufacturers are reaching the physical limits with most of their approaches to boosting CPU performance, and are instead turning to hyperthreading and multicore architectures; ��� Applications are increasingly need to support concurrency; ��� Programming languages and systems are increasingly forced to deal well with concurrency. This thesis is an attempt to propose an overview of a paradigm that aims to properly abstract the problem of propagating data changes: Reactive Programming (RP). This paradigm proposes an asynchronous non-blocking approach to concurrency and computations, abstracting from the low-level concurrency mechanisms.