[robwormald]

We've got some really cool ideas to make Rx really first class in Angular. It's already pretty deeply integrated, but with a little work, it'll be awesome.

[cormacrelf]

What are they? I've been developing with the @ngrx suite, and it's been mostly pretty smooth, what more do you want? I would like to see a piece of documentation that lays out explicitly what happens when you pass around Observables. Hot ones, cold ones, when the auto-unsubscribe clicks in, whether

    this.property$ = some_observable();
    this.property$.subscribe(fn);

... will auto-unsubscribe (does it? who knows... try it?), what happens when you async pipe and its interaction with ChangeDetection...

[philplckthun]

definitely agreed! It's become one of the biggest "advocators", so to speak. But I think people will want to learn it as a default, async primitive in JS as promises now are. Not saying support from Angular and other projects and also companies doesn't help, since it makes it look less like a "scary, new thing", but I think more people should start to teach it's benefits to be frank and blunt about it ;)

[robwormald]

absolutely. we're 100% invested in Rx, and more than anything else I'd like to see the Observable type standardized.