RxJS with Ben Lesh

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 eslint, the tooling that enables eslint 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 .com as Joshua k Goldberg. Ben Lesh, welcome to Software Engineering Daily. Hey. Thanks for having me. I haven't seen you in 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 and 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. There's a situation where someone was working on a website or whatever, and I was curious about it. And I thought I could fix something or work on it. And, basically, I learned how to to do, like, some basic HTML and JavaScript stuff. And I had a friend that was like, dude, do you know how much more money you can make doing this? And I was like, really? So at the time, there was no Google. There was no Stack Overflow. None of that. I basically loitered in Barnes and Noble and read books because that was the only way to get recent information. Like, they weren't at the library or anything. You know, practice doing stuff on my little compact presario. Eventually, I I got my first programming gig. It was there is an ad. There's trying to hire somebody for it was, like, $80 an hour or something like that for four hours a day. I had to call them over and over and over again because they're not calling me back because I, you know, wasn't qualified for what they were looking for. And they finally brought me in, and they're like they asked me some questions. I got probably half of them right. And they're like, so you know what we're gonna ask is you like I was like, do you think you're qualified for this? And I was like, well, no. But I really think I can do what you need done, and I'm willing …