Expand the Rx vs Task discussion
LeeCampbell opened this issue · comments
List the (dis)advantages with Rx and Task
Rx
- No way to provide Back pressure e.g. from x in xs from from content in Download(x)....how do I throttle so I dont have more than 5 calls to Download at once. (Maybe with Merge).
- Clumsy for Single value sequences. A bit like using an Array to return a single value.
Task
- Async/Await is really awesome. Finally Begin/EndAsyn pattern can go die.
- Painful cancellation paradigm. Arguments that suggest somethings are not cancellable so should not be built in seem very flaky.
- Obviously only for single values
- Cant compose, but not as nicely as Rx (IMO).
- Eager. If you have a task it has started running.
- Pre task: Einstien, With Task : Elvis, With await : Mort. Problem is, Concurrency is not a Mort problem space.