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RxJava – Reactive Extensions for the JVM – a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences for the Java VM.
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Kotlin multiplaform support #7571

Closed vladimirlisovskij closed 1 year ago

vladimirlisovskij commented 1 year ago

Hi all! I noticed that Reactivex has many implementations for different platforms. However, they are all separated into separate libraries. For the convenience of working in kotlin projects, I propose to combine them in a Kotlin Multiplatform project. What do you think about it? Would it be useful?

I didn't know where to ask this question, so I wrote it here (sorry for this): https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxKotlin https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxAndroid https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxJava

Thanks in advance!

akarnokd commented 1 year ago

We have separate projects so each platform can be unconstrained and Rx doesn't become the lowest common denominator.

For example, the RxAndroid main scheduler has no logical counterpart in server-backend RxJava. Kotlin has a lot of language features and conveniences that do not translate well (or at all) into RxJava for Java.