[EvanPlaice]

Just wait until JS gets the :: function bind operator.

This wil yield 2 significant benefits.

First, Instead of the current hacky approach to implementing monads in JS, by which I mean adding operator methods to the observer 'monad' protype it'll be possible to use truly functional monads. Mixed with async functions I'd expect unnecessary blocking to become a non-issue and traditional prototype method chaining to become an anti-pattern.

Second, since it isn't necessary to add the operators at runtime it'll be possible to include them as separate ES6 module imports. That means, RxJS as well as any other library that extensively uses method chaining (ex lodash, jQuery) will finally benefit from tree shaking.

If this works the way I've been led to believe, minamilist libraries like jqlite will die off and Rollup.js will become the the de facto linker for building JS packages.