6: Unfulfilled Promises

Chris has an announcement, followed by a quick discussion about OS X Yosemite and iOS 8. From there, Andrew, Chris, and Kevin go back and forth on Promises and why they’re an insufficient abstraction.

Show notes

OS X Yosemite GM3/PB6 vs. final build
Continuity
Peer-to-peer AirPlay
ECMAScript Promises
Promises/A+
Lambdas
Callback Hell
Futures and promises
PromiseKit
@mxcl PromiseKit ObjC/Swift parity
Bolts-iOS
UIAlertView+PromiseKit
Streams and Signals (documentation from ReactiveCocoa)
ReactiveCocoa
RxJava
RxJava-Android
bacon.js
RxJS
Andrew's CodeMash 2015 talk: Be proactive, use reactive! (⌘F “Sardone”)

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Kevin Vitale: @vitalekj
Chris Dzombak: @cdzombak / dzombak.com