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Is there a good discussion somewhere of the pros/cons of using the term `Event` vs the term `Intent`?

I didn't see any. But it feels natural to use Event for something that already happened, in the past tense. And use Intent or Action for a call to action, in an imperative mood.

That makes sense to me too, but the MVI libraries choose one : usually either `Intent` or `Event` to represent the thingy that will be fired into the dispatcher/reducer/etc to change the state. Since I-ntent is in the acronym, that feels more natural, but it seems that many frameworks use `Event` instead.

In MVIKotlin there's kinda a naming convention. A store accepts Intents. The reducer accepts Messages, or the same Intents if there is no Executor. Events are produced by views.

But if you don't want to have both Events and Intents and mappings between the two, then I would advise to use just Intent.