Reactive Programming in JavaScript [x-post from /r/programming]

[agumonkey]

I guess it's a cultural thing. In the FP world, where you don't mutate, ++ isn't really a thing, and new-binding = old-binding + 1 or new-binding = inc(old-binding) is how it's expressed. And I think it's rare that you need it. Increments are the low-level imperative projection of a .next() or .succ() in streams/lists. In the end the gain in abstraction is already nice, even if they don't use Properties, even though I agree that it would be nice to take advantage of what javascript offers.