<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 28, 2017, at 6:56 PM, Howard Lovatt via swift-evolution &lt;<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Many of the currently popular server side frameworks are switching to Reactive Streams:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_Streams#Adoption" class="">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_Streams#Adoption</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">for their underlying communication, including Akka. Reactive Streams are also to become builtin to Java, as the Flow class, in version 9.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Would it be wise if Swift 5 also builtin Reactive Stream protocols and built its Actor implementation etc. on top of this protocol?<br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>In MHO, yes, it would be great to build a reactive stream abstraction as well. &nbsp; I agree with you that this is an effectively “obvious” part of the eventual model, and that we will almost certainly end up building it. &nbsp;It would also make sense to have foreach over an async sequence be itself implicitly async. &nbsp;I haven’t sketched that out, but it seems like a few straight-forward steps beyond what is in the manifesto doc.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I’ve added a mention of these to the doc, thanks!</div><div><a href="https://gist.github.com/lattner/31ed37682ef1576b16bca1432ea9f782#further-extensions" class="">https://gist.github.com/lattner/31ed37682ef1576b16bca1432ea9f782#further-extensions</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>-Chris</div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature">&nbsp; -- Howard.<br class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_signature"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_signature">More info on Reactive streams:</div><div class="gmail_signature"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_signature">&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/reactive-streams/reactive-streams-jvm/blob/v1.0.1/README.md#specification" class="">https://github.com/reactive-streams/reactive-streams-jvm/blob/v1.0.1/README.md#specification</a></div><div class="gmail_signature"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_signature">&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://bryangilbert.com/post/code/scala/akka-reactive-streams/" class="">http://bryangilbert.com/post/code/scala/akka-reactive-streams/</a></div><div class="gmail_signature"><br class=""></div>
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