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The problem is that Rx isn’t about “streams of events”. The main interface, IObservable, is entirely about _subscribing_ to “streams of events”. It’s the awful
by CuriousSkeptic 9y ago
The problem is that Rx isn’t about “streams of events”. The main interface, IObservable, is entirely about _subscribing_ to “streams of events”.
It’s the awful brittleness of handling those subscriptions that makes it so hard to program with.
Compare that to something like signals in Elm (originally, it has changed now) while it makes some things Rx allow you to do impossible reports from users are that once it type checks “it just works”
- breatheoften 9y agoAn interesting podcast on the topic where the creator of elm discusses the creation (and removal) of signals in elm. https://overcast.fm/+HSqxOglhQ/17:21 https://overcast.fm/+HSqxOglhQ/17:21
- flor1s 9y agoSignals have been part of FRP since the first papers about it were published twenty years ago (about FRAN)