Day 2 Keynote, An async journey

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History explains why Rx grew: a 2005 Live Labs project (Volta) produces an IL-to-JS compiler IL tjs with a huge runtime and later gets archived, experiments lead to an event-query model that yields observables with a cancelable Ajax stack still in use, and cross‑language ports (RxJava, RxPY, RxJS) land unevenly while Angular adoption spikes. Practical moves include switching from monolithic operators to tree-shakable pipes and using async generators / ixjs to handle backpressure instead of naive subscribe patterns.

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2. 8:501994 - Design Patterns Emerge
3. 9:401997 - Functional Reactive Programming
4. 14:03General Theory of Reactivity

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