[ General question ] functional API, RxJS-like

[TheCelavi]

Hello,

I was just wondering if you ever considered to provide RxJS-like API? Something like:

use function Rx\from;
use function Rx\op1;
use function Rx\op2;

from(1)
    ->pipe(
        op1(),
        op2(),
        ...
    )
    ->subscribe();

Thank you!

[davidwdan]

In JS, the main reason they switched to pipe was for tree-shaking, which isn't necessary in PHP. Is there something that you're trying to do that can't be done with the current API?

[TheCelavi]

No, not that I have stumbled upon. The reason why I was asking this was purely DX, my first interaction with ReactiveX starts with RxJS. Like, I had this example:

$obs1->withLatestFrom([$obs2, $obs3,....])

which in RxJS would look like:

withLatestFrom([
$obs1,
$obs2,
$obs3,
...
])

Clearly, there is no any kind of value in terms of "functionality" - both examples would produce same result. There is only one value in supporting second example as well is that it would make life much easier for us coming from RxJS with already developed mental model when working with ReactiveX.

Now, question is -> would RxPHP be interested in providing such "syntactic suggar" within this library as well?