There are many more topics that warrant discussion and I will expand upon these here.

Reservoir sampling can be modeled as a behavior that watches a stream or signal and produces a representative sample on demand.

A clock user interface is a good study in the interplay between behaviors, signals, time, and animation scheduling.

Drawing from my experience at FastSoft, we exposed variables from the kernel's networking stack so we could monitor the bandwidth running through our TCP acceleration appliance. Some of those variables modeled the number of packets transmitted and the number of bytes transmitted. These counters would frequently overflow. There are several interesting ways to architect a solution that would provide historical data in multiple resolutions, accounting for the variable overflow, involving a combination of streams, behaviors, and signals. I should draw your attention to design aspects of RRDTool.

An advantage of having a unified framework for reactive primitives is to create simple stories for passing one kind of primitive to another. Promises can be coerced to tasks, tasks to promises. A signal can be used as a behavior, and a behavior can be captured by a signal. Signals can be channeled into streams, and streams can be channeled into signals.

It is worth exploring in detail how operators can be lifted in each of these value spaces.

Implementing distributed sort using streams is also a worthy exercise.

Asynchronous behaviors would benefit from an operator that solves the thundering herd problem, the inverse of throttling.

How to implement type ahead suggestion is a great case to explore cancelable streams and tasks.

I also need to discuss how these reactive concepts can propagate operational transforms through queries, using both push and pull styles, and how this relates to bindings, both synchronous and asynchronous.

I also need to compare and contrast publishers and subscribers to the related concepts of signals and streams. In short, publishers and subscribers are broadcast, unlike unicast streams, but a single subscription could be modeled as a stream. However, a subscriber can typically not push back on a publisher, so how resource contention is alleviated is an open question.

Related to publishing and subscribing, streams can certainly be forked, in which case both branches would put pressure back on the source.

Streams also have methods that return tasks. All of these could propagate estimated time to completion. Each of the cases for all, any, race, and read are worth exploring.

High performance buffers for bytewise data with the promise buffer interface require further exploration.

Implementing a retry loop with promises and tasks is illustrative.

Reactive Extensions (Rx) beg a distinction between hot and cold observables, which is worth exploring. The clock reference implementation shows one way to implement a signal that can be active or inactive based on whether anyone is looking.

The research into continuous behaviors and the original idea of Functional Reactive Programming by Conal Elliott deserves attention.

The interplay between promises and tasks with their underlying progress behavior and estimated time to completion and status signals require further explanation. These ideas need to be incorporated into the sketches of promise and task implementations.