Hi guys, anyone know a good library for Reactive p...

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[Francesco megna]

Hi guys, anyone know a good library for Reactive programming in Kotlin? excluding RxJava and RxKotlin wrapper

[LeoColman]

MAybe using coroutines directly? I don't think you need RxJava given you have #C1CFAFJSK, but I'm not sure. Maybe this is just my usecase

[Czar]

https://projectreactor.io/

[louiscad]

#C1CFAFJSK, with suspend functions, channels and upcoming cold streams

[Francesco megna]

actually, in my Android projects, I use coroutines, and its fine for async operations. I need more power for create streams and use a more functional approach. I will take a look to cold streams

[Francesco megna]

Reactor is an interesting library, which are the main differences from RxJava?

[ghedeon]

there is nothing to take a look at, lol) People are bringing their seats a bit too far. The described coroutine+channels+actors+cold streams combo will be ready and stable in one year maybe, with operators and stuff, to replace rx in full.

[ghedeon]

I even have a feeling that structured concurrency release was rushed a little, considering some open bugs and confusion about cancellation and error handling in #C1CFAFJSK

[louiscad]

Cold streams are coming soon, I know they'll likely be called "flow" (learned it today). Channels already work and I happily use them.

[Francesco megna]

yes I agree with this, but the expressivity to use normal feature language instead of a massive dependency it’s a really good advantage, IMHO

[Czar]

In fact language only provides suspend, the rest is a library, just from JetBrains instead of some other company. If I was writing a production app, I'd probably stick with mature solution like RxJava or ProjectReactor.

[streetsofboston]

RxJava is an extra abstraction that could be built using an implementation that uses coroutines and suspend functions.

[streetsofboston]

For simple network requests, plain ‘channel’ like work, using coroutines and channels are perfectly fine to use, I think. No need to introduce RxJava for that 🙂

[gildor]

Why do you need another alternative Rx library instead of RxJava?

[gildor]

I want to be clear, there are maybe some additional requirements, like MPP support, which is not possible with RxJava