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When I name things I look for a word that doesn't get drowned out by unrelated hits in search engines, and has some kind of link to what the library does. Straightforward names are…

Indeed, any good intro to Rx points this out: Observable is the plural of future/promise. When people are trying to do fancy streaming stuff with futures and come to me for help, I…

Yes, templates are expensive at compile time (memory and time both). folly/futures only depends on a few pieces of folly/, you may find that you can use the futures headers just fi…

Scala also takes the same way C++11 does, and to my mind it makes more sense this way. So from my perspective Javascript is the backward duck here. I agree it would be nice if we c…

Yes, the two terms are unfortunately both synonymous (comparing different implementations of the pattern in different languages), and usually have specific meanings in the context …

It is along the same lines as boost's futures implementation. We have a different mechanism for expressing thread management, born out of trial and error and Facebook engineer feed…