[troupo]

> It’s just that they produce some of the least intuitive code imaginable. The three horsemen of JavaScript have always been generators, RxJS, and Redux.

It took the author of RxJava months to understand the concepts. And he had the author of Rx.Net to explain them to him [1]

It's also strange is that what we realy want is Excel-like reativity. But instead we're always getting Rx-like reactivity.

[1] From his book: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C0M-U1DXcAADTS3?format=jpg&name=...

[nwienert]

A time ago I had a project where we had an intense tree-like data structure where at any given level there may be a finite async-stream. Basically recursively needed to await streams until they finished.

I was using for RxDB based on RxJS, so after a couple nights of banging my head I went into the RxJS chat and asked for help. One of the maintainers of the library who worked at MS said it was a perfect problem and I think I nerd-baited him into helping out...

... we ended up spending like a week on it going back and forth, and neither of us could figure it out. The code we ended up with was frightening.

[bsimpson]

I'm guessing Jafar is Jafar Husain, the original evangelist of Observables in JavaScript?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lil4YCCXRYc