Programming: State, Events, & Data Streams in any Language

The title of this article is full of a bunch of words, some of which may be unclear to programmers who only write low-level code, and some of which may be unclear to programmers who only write web and mobile GUI applications.

I will try to hopefully bridge the gap for people from either background, but understand that this is not an article meant for a quick skim with divided attention. I have arranged these concepts in a logical progression, so please buckle up and set aside a few minutes of your day to possibly change the way…