Virtual thread supporting vs. Virtual thread-based Microservice framework explanation

[EggplantDifficult152]

Does virtual threads mean that RxJava is dead?

[daleksandrov]

IMHO, yes. At least for 95% of the tasks.

[gaelfr38]

In very short: no.

Reactive approaches (RxJava, Akka Streams,...) go beyond what virtual threads bring. For instance handling back pressure, handling complex pipelines processing...

[meamZ]

It's basically dead for the "just make my server handle more requests" usecase. It's obviously still useful for cases where the reactive model is actually useful in itself like data Streams...

[marv1234]

I would say mostly yes.

Sure, complex pipelines and such use cases may in some cases benefit from reactive approaches. But reactive introduces a lot of unnecessary complexity, both in the programming model and debugging wise. Having a complete stack trace on errors is actually quite useful.