Write Chapter 2 - Related Work

[fmcarvalho]

• [x] Section 2.1 - Background
• [ ] Section 2.2 - Asynchronous data flows key concepts and design alternatives
• [ ] Section 2.3 - State of the Art

Section 2.1 - Background

Describe background ("history"). Lookup and search where is the beginning idea of reactive streams. Maybe you find something in related work of (in folder https://github.com/isel-sw-projects/2021-asyncio-pipelines/tree/main/00-related-papers):

• 1997-Proactor-Dispatching-Handlers-for-Asynchronous-Events.pdf
• 2000-Pattern-Oriented-Concurrent-and-Networked-Objects-pdf
• 2012 Your mouse is a database - Eric Meijer author of the first implementation of ReactiveX proposal for .Net. Or maybe this papers cite others works that is useful.

Section 2.2. - Asynchronous data flows key concepts and design alternatives

Describe in a Section each property that distinguish each asynchronous stream implementation:

• push versus pull;
• cancelable;
• error handling;
• with back pressure, or not;
• via API via intrinsic keywords (e.g. for await...of)
• etc...

Section 2.3 - State of the Art

Then also characterize each technology Kotlin Flow, RxJava, Javascript async iterators, dotnet async iterators, etc according to a set of properties described before.

[fmcarvalho]

@DiogoRodr You may find a little bit of history about the beginning of Reactive Streams (former ReactiveX) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactiveX.

Erik Meijer was part of the Cloud Programmability Team at Microsoft around 2011 that invented ReactiveX.

[fmcarvalho]

Detalhar isto a desconstrução do async iterator em C# ou Javascript. (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/for-await...of#iterating_over_async_iterables)