Hey guys! I'm wondering what the advantages of usi...
# coroutinesa
alucard
03/23/2018, 1:45 PMHey guys! I'm wondering what the advantages of using coroutines over RxJava.
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louiscad
03/23/2018, 1:53 PMSmaller & more intuitive. Learning curve is way steeper for RxJava
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Jonathan
03/23/2018, 2:29 PMProduced code is IMO clearer and easier to reason about. And coroutines use kotlin generics allowing easier and safer management of variance an nullable types, (Observable generics have platform type)
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deviant
03/23/2018, 2:40 PMi like the syntax. all those chains of `flatMap`s is a hell
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Dmytro Danylyk
03/25/2018, 9:28 PMHere are few benefits of channels over rx (IMO):
* Can handle null emissions (and in a safe way, thanks to Kotlin type system)
* Threading is explicit. With Rx, it's often hard to know on what thread pool each piece of code is executed
* ReceiveChannel and SendChannel use on-site variance which can make thinks easier when generic variance is involved.
* It is (a lot) easier to create custom operators with channels.
* When it comes to parallelism, Coroutines are (IMO) way easier to use and produce clearer code.
* pipeline pattern out of the box.
So far, I haven't run in a use case that Rx solved and I couldn't handle in a nice and easy way with Channels. If you know one, i would be interested to look at it.
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Dmytro Danylyk
03/25/2018, 9:29 PMI am not an author, this is from Reddit thread ⤴️
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