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RxJS vs Tokio: What are the differences?
RxJS: The Reactive Extensions for JavaScript. RxJS is a library for reactive programming using Observables, to make it easier to compose asynchronous or callback-based code. This project is a rewrite of Reactive-Extensions/RxJS with better performance, better modularity, better debuggable call stacks, while staying mostly backwards compatible, with some breaking changes that reduce the API surface; Tokio: Runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. It is an open source library providing an asynchronous, event driven platform for building fast, reliable, and lightweight network applications. It leverages Rust's ownership and concurrency model to ensure thread safety.
RxJS and Tokio can be categorized as "Concurrency Frameworks" tools.
RxJS is an open source tool with 19.7K GitHub stars and 2.25K GitHub forks. Here's a link to RxJS's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of RxJS
- Easier async data chaining and combining6
- Steep learning curve, but offers predictable operations3
- Observable subjects2
- Ability to build your own stream2
- Works great with any state management implementation2
- Easier testing2
- Lot of build-in operators1
- Simplifies state management1
- Great for push based architecture1
- Documentation1
Pros of Tokio
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Cons of RxJS
- Steep learning curve3