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by no_wizard 1000 days ago
not particularly, I think it would make it more confusing.

When I break it down to folks explaining its stream processing over iterables or async work and you subscribe (and can unsubscribe) a pipeline that runs over that stream, people get it quickly.

When I say you can "observe a stream" people start getting other connotations, for some reason. I have ran into this over and over and over. Smart people too, not talking about just juniors here