RXJS is an open source library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs.

It provides powerful operators for transforming, filtering, combining, and managing streams of data,

from user input and web requests to real-time updates.

Ben Lesh is the creator of RXJS.

He joins Josh Goldberg to talk about his path into engineering and the RXJS Library.

This episode is hosted by Josh Goldberg, an independent full-time open source developer.

Josh works on projects in the TypeScript ecosystem, most notably TypeScript ES Slint, the tooling

that enables ES Slint and prettier to run, TypeScript ES Slint, the tooling that enables ESS. Slint and prettier to

run on TypeScript code. Josh is also the author of the O'Reilly Learning TypeScript book, a Microsoft

MVP for developer technologies, and a live code streamer on Twitch. Find Josh on Blue Sky,

mastodon, Twitter, Twitch, YouTube, and dot com as Joshua K. Goldberg.

Ben Lush, welcome to Software Engineering Daily.

Hey, thanks for having me.

I haven't seen you a while.

Yeah, it's been a bit.

I'm excited to talk to you.

You've been doing a lot of really interesting stuff around observables on RXJS.

But before we get into all that, can you tell us how did you get into coding?

Well, let's see.

I had been doing like little basic programming stuff when I was a kid.

But then I went to art school, dropped out of art school after about three years and was working doing graphic design work at Ohio State University working there.

I was not going to school there.

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