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Dan Silcox

Nice, similar to observables / RXJS in JS/typescript by the looks.

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michelemauro

That's because RX came first (actually a MS Research project, early 2010s), and Java 8 followed (2014). More than that, lazy list operations (that are semantically very similar to streams) came even earlier in various lisp derivatives.