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A comment on Highland.js.

Re:Highland.js by andersriutta on Thursday April 16, 2015 @02:30PM (#9389879)
Highland is a great option, even easier to use than Caolan's previous library Async.js.

Re: Highland vs. RxJS, RxJS operates at a lower level interface [0]. As a plus for RxJS, Reactive Extensions are available for multiple languages, not just JS [1].

[0] https://twitter.com/_ericelliott/status/551814104231723009 [1] https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/RxJS/blob/master/doc/...

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Re:Highland.js by mattpodwysocki on Thursday April 16, 2015 @06:37PM (#9391140)
RxJS author here. Right, an advantage is if you know the Java, .NET, Python, C++ version, etc, then you know the JavaScript version. That and we try to adhere to an Array#extras style following all of ES2015/ES7 Array methods.

Another advantage is that many frameworks such as Angular 2.0 are shipping with support for Observables, so that's a huge win for users of RxJS that it automatically just works.

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Re:Highland.js by lmeyerov on Thursday April 16, 2015 @07:10PM (#9391278)
Yep I'm confused why Highland exists. Maybe if it was a sugar layer over Rx?
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