thomasnield
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7 years ago Hi @vegabook, I'm glad you like the video, thank you. This is something I'd definitely like to support although I don't have a definite answer on what will work best.
Here are some thoughts:
Kotlin has a phenomenal support community as well, with it's own Slack channel and active community. Granted, they have a dedicated JetBrains team which kept the momentum going until critical community mass was reached. There is even an #rx channel which is active daily with RxJava/RxKotlin questions and answers.
It would be best to find an existing (and highly active) Slack Python community that's similar and add an #rx channel to it effectively. I don't know if such a community exists though, and the next best things I can think of are the Python Forum and Reddit.
So I think putting together a Slack is a great idea, but it'd be better if we could piggyback as a channel to a dedicated Python Slack, rather than an entire RxPy Slack domain.
vegabook
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Apologies if this is not quite the right forum, but as somebody completely new to ReactiveX, I'm wondering how to get active help on RxPY using Slack, IRC, Gitter, Discourse, or equivalent. I can't seem to find anything and am having trouble getting decent answers on Stack Overflow:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46879555/how-to-use-rxpy-or-rxjs-combine-latest-with-a-group-by-observable
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46876527/in-reactivex-how-do-i-pass-other-parameters-to-observer-create
By contrast I'm finding the RxJS community to be very active (I guess Angular is a big part of that), and they're helping me once in a while on Gitter, but it's imperfect as modern JS is becoming more and more "functional" and the solutions in JS don't always map well to Python.
Is there any RxPY community online? Is there any interest to create one? Personally happy to get involved but I need to get properly up to speed first on what I consider to be an amazing, and strategic, technology which should be much more widespread in data science.
BTW I loved Thomas Neald's videos, and have all the sample code, but unfortunately my 10-day Safari trial has ended. I'm waiting in anticipation of the Python Reactive Programming book from Packt which I have already pre-ordered.