In this episode we chatted with core maintainer David Karnok about the present and the future of RxJava.

In this episode Artem and Hannes chatted with David Karnok about present and future of RxJava. We discussed:

• RxJava 3 Preview
• Kaushik Gopal's blog post: RxJava 1 -> RxJava 2 (Understanding the Changes)
• Artem Zinnatullin's Reply to Kaushik Gopal's aricle: "RxJava 1 -> RxJava 2 (Understanding the Changes)"
• Kotlin Coroutines
• Reagent: Experiments for future reactive libraries by using Kotlin Coroutines by Jake Wharton
• RxJava vs. Kotlin Coroutines, a quick look by David Karnok
• Rewriting RxJava with Kotlin Coroutines? by David Karnok
• Interoperation between RxJava and Kotlin Coroutines by David Karnok

Links:

• Episode 3 of The Context Podcast featuring David Karnok
• RxJava Documentation: Backpressure
• Reactive Programming with JDK 9 Flow API
• Kotlin Slack

Guests

• David Karnok: Twitter, GitHub, blog

Hosts

• Artem Zinnatullin: Twitter, GitHub, blog
• Hannes Dorfmann: Twitter, GitHub, blog

Discussion

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